Nuland is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Maasdonk, about 8 km (5 mi) east of 's-Hertogenbosch.

Nuland was a separate municipality until 1993, when merged with Geffen and Vinkel to create the new municipality of Maasdonk.^[1]

References[link]

1. ^ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2006.

External links[link]

• J. Kuyper, Gemeente Atlas van Nederland, 1865-1870, "Nuland". Map of the former municipality, around 1868.

Coordinates: 51°44′N 5°26′E / 51.733°N 5.433°E / 51.733; 5.433

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Victoria Nuland
Spokesperson for the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Assumed office May, 2011
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Philip J. Crowley
18th United States Permanent Representative to NATO
In office June 20, 2005 – May 2, 2008
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	R. Nicholas Burns
Succeeded by	Kurt Volker
Personal details
Born	1961 New York City, New York
Spouse(s)	Robert Kagan

Victoria Nuland (born 1961) is the spokesperson for the United States Department of State.^[1]

Career[link]

In summer 2011, Nuland became the State Department Spokesperson. She was declared a "consummate professional who proved that Foreign Service officers could be trusted to put professionalism over politics."^[2]

She was Ambassador of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 2005 to 2008. As NATO Ambassador, she focused heavily on strengthening Allied support for the Afghanistan war, on NATO-Russia issues, and on the Alliance’s global partnerships and continued enlargement.

A career Foreign Service officer, she was Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to Vice President Cheney from July 2003 until May 2005, where she worked on the full range of global issues, including those relating to Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and the broader Middle East.

Nuland was the Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO from July 2000 to July 2003. There she was instrumental in NATO's invocation of Article 5 of its charter – "an attack on one ally is an attack on all" – in support of the United States after September 11, 2001. She also worked intensively on the enlargement of the Alliance to include seven new members, the creation of the NATO-Russia Council, NATO's first deployment "out of area" to Afghanistan and its defense of Turkey during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

From 1997 to 1999, Nuland was Deputy Director for former Soviet Union affairs at the United States Department of State, with primary responsibility for U.S. policy towards the Russian Federation and the Caucasus countries. In that capacity, she was awarded the Secretary of Defense's Distinguished Civilian Service medal for her work with the Russians during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

Nuland has twice been a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1999 to 2000, she looked at the effect of Anti-Americanism on U.S. relations with other major world powers as a "Next Generation" Fellow at the Council, and from 1996 to 1997, as a State Department Fellow, she directed a CFR task force on "Russia, its Neighbors and an Expanding NATO," which was chaired by Senator Richard Lugar.

From 1993 to 1996, Nuland was chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbot with whom she worked on the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus, Bosnia and Kosovo policy and the U.S. intervention in Haiti, among other issues. From 1991 to 1993, she covered Russian internal politics at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow focusing on Boris Yeltsin and his government. She has also served on the Soviet Desk (1988–1990), in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, in the State Department's Bureaus of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (1987) and in Guangzhou, China (1985–1986).

Personal life[link]

Nuland is the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland. She graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979 and has a B.A. from Brown University. Nuland is married to historian Robert Kagan, with whom she has two children. Nuland speaks Russian and French, and some Chinese.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Biography – from the U.S. State Department (2010)
• Official Biography – from the U.S. State Department (2008)
• Victoria Nuland biography – from the U.S. NATO Mission website
• C-SPAN Q&A interview with Nuland, June 18, 2006

v t e United States Permanent Representatives to NATO William H. Draper, Jr. · John C. Hughes · George W. Perkins · Warren R. Burgess · Thomas K. Finletter · Harlan Cleveland · Robert F. Ellsworth · David M. Kennedy · Donald Rumsfeld · David K. E. Bruce · Robert Strausz-Hupé · William T. Bennett · David M. Abshire · Alton G. Keel, Jr. · William Howard Taft IV · Reginald Bartholomew · Robert E. Hunter · Alexander Vershbow · R. Nicholas Burns · Victoria Nuland · Kurt Volker · Ivo Daalder

Matthew Lee is a public interest lawyer, author, and founder of two non-profit organizations, Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch.

Both are known for their investigations of the banking industry's treatment of low-income communities of color around the world. Lee produces weekly reports on, and advocates concerning, such global banks as HSBC, Citigroup, Royal Bank of Scotland, Mizuho, and others. In 2005-2006, Lee was engaged in litigation to deem the "citizens-only" provision of the Freedom of Information Act of Delaware (and ten other states) to be unconstitutional.^[1]

Lee is the author of the non-fiction book Predatory Lending: Toxic Credit in the Global Inner City and the novel Predatory Bender. Lee is also an accredited journalist at the United Nations.

In mid-2006, Lee's investigative journalism at the UN, published online in Inner City Press^[2] uncovered and led to the United Nations Development Programme halting its disarmament programs in the Karamoja region of Uganda in response to human rights abuses exposed in the parallel forcible disarmament programs carried out by the Uganda People's Defense Force. For another view, see the Ugandan newspaper The New Vision,^[3] which was critical of UNDP's halt of funding.

Lee is also a frequent video discussion guest on BloggingHeads.tv, discussing things related to United Nations internal operations.

In 2008, Lee appeared on the ninth episode of the sixth season of the show Penn & Teller: Bullshit!. The show discussed "World Peace" and went on a tour that Lee led most of in the UN building. Besides leading the tour, he also discussed some of the actions that the UN takes which are hypocritical, or make little sense.

In 2009, Lee reported extensively on the conflict in Sri Lanka, including critically covering UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's visit to the internally displaced persons' camps in Vavuniya in May 2009. In early 2010, Lee was invited to speak on the topic of Sri Lanka at the Rebellious Lawyers' conference at Yale Law School.

See also[link]

Novels portal

• Inner City Press
• Fair Finance Watch

References[link]

External links[link]

• "A Citizen of the World, At Home in The Bronx," Washington Post, April 17, 2006
• "HSBC 'overcharging' US troops," The Observer (UK), December 18, 2005
• "Wading through the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Muck," US Banker, November 2005
• Review of Predatory Bender
• Another review of Predatory Bender
• Video discussions/debates involving Matthew Lee on BloggingHeads.tv
• The Beat by Eric Konigsberg (Sept. 26, 2011), The New Yorker