Mona K. Sutphen is an American senior government official, lobbyist, and writer on foreign policy. Sutphen served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. She is currently "a macro analyst at UBS." Sutphen is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and graduated from John Marshall High School there. Her mother was Jewish and her father African American. She earned her B.A. in international relations in 1989 from Mount Holyoke College and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Sutphen was managing director of Stonebridge International, a... Washington-based business lobbying firm. She has served as a United States Foreign Service officer and was also a member of the Clinton Administration, serving on the staff of the National Security Council . She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise. Sutphen was "one of more than 50 ex-lobbyists in senior Obama administration jobs." The Washington Post published a profile of Sutphen on April 14, 2009.
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