Press Release
July 4, 2008

Assistant US Secretary of State to meet with PLM president and UNO spokesman Adel Tamano

Goli Ameri, Assistant US Secretary of State and Special Envoy for Education will be hosted by Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM) president and United Opposition spokesman Atty. Adel Tamano for a talk at 3:00 P.M. on Monday, at the PLM campus in Intramuros, Manila.

Ameri is an Iranian American politician, diplomat and businesswoman from the U.S. state of Oregon and a member of the Republican Party. She is the current Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. She ran for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 2004, and is a former delegate to the United Nations. She was born in Tehran, Iran.

She first came to the United States when she was 17, in 1974, to attend Stanford University. There, she earned a B.A. in Communications and French Literature and, later, her M.A. in Communications. She also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Ameri was founder and president of eTinium, Inc., a telecommunications consulting firm in Portland, Oregon.

In October 2007, Ameri was named as one of the "100 Most Powerful Women in the Northwest" by The NW Women's Journal for her UN service and her position on the Advisory Board of the National Education for Women's Leadership program at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University.0

Ameri was appointed by George W. Bush as one of three public members of the United States ' delegation to the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, which meets annually in Geneva, Switzerland.

In the summer of 2005, President Bush appointed Ameri as the head of the United States ' delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, which is headquartered in New York City. There, she worked on UN Management Reform, the creation of the UN Human Rights Council.

On November 15, 2007, Ameri was appointed by President Bush to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, succeeding Dina Habib Powell and presiding over the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. The Bureau is largely responsible for the United States government's public diplomacy efforts abroad.

As part of her duties, Ameri has traveled to different regions of the globe to promote cross-cultural understanding.

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