Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin has been President of the Middle East Institute since March 2007. Before leading MEI, she served as Deputy High Commissioner for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and as Assistant Administrator in the Asia-Near East Bureau for USAID. In addition to being US Ambassador to Pakistan and to the Laos People’s Democratic Republic, her assignments have included Deputy in the Bureau of International Counter-Narcotics and Law Programs, Director of Press and Public Affairs for the Near East Bureau, and Director of Global Affairs and Counter-Terrorism at the National Security Council. Wendy Chamberlin holds degrees from Northwestern and Boston University. Jump to Transcript