Alice P. Albright
{{Short description|American government official (born 1961)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Alice P. Albright
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| education = Williams College (BA)
Columbia University (MIA)
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1961}}
| image = Alice Albright, MCC CEO 2 (cropped).jpg
| birth_name = Alice Patterson Albright
| successor1 =
| predecessor1 = Sean Cairncross
| term_end1 = January 20, 2025
| term_start1 = February 16, 2022
| president1 = Joe Biden
| office1 = CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation
| parents = Madeleine Albright
Joseph Albright
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Alice Patterson Albright{{Cite web |last=Tapp |first=Tom |date=March 23, 2022|title=Madeleine Albright Dies: First Female U.S. Secretary Of State Was 84 |url=https://deadline.com/2022/03/madeleine-albright-dead-secretary-of-state-1234985052/ |access-date=March 24, 2022|website=Deadline}} (born 1961){{cite news|url=https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/obituary-madeleine-albright-first-female-185624897.html|title= Obituary: Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state |date=March 24, 2022|access-date=March 26, 2022|agency=Yahoo! Sports}} is an American government official who served as the CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation from 2022 to 2025.{{Cite web |title=Senate Confirms Alice Albright as Next MCC CEO |url=https://www.mcc.gov/news-and-events/release/release-020722-senate-confirms-alice-albright-as-ceo |access-date=March 4, 2022|website=Millennium Challenge Corporation}}{{Cite web |title=Alice Albright |url=https://www.mcc.gov/about/profile/bio-albright-alice |access-date=March 24, 2022|website=Millennium Challenge Corporation}}
Early life and education
Albright is a daughter of former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.{{Cite web |title=Madeleine Albright Remembered As "Loving Mother, Grandmother" After Her Death At 84 |url=https://www.romper.com/life/madeleine-albright-daughters |access-date=March 24, 2022|website=Romper|date=23 March 2022 }}{{Cite web |date=March 12, 2020|title=Madeleine and Alice Albright Trade Tips for Working Mothers |url=https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/madeleine-and-alice-albright-trade-tips-for-working-mothers/ |access-date=March 24, 2022|website=The Aspen Institute}} Her grandfather, Josef Korbel, was Czechoslovakia's ambassador to Yugoslavia, chairman of the United Nations Commission for India and Pakistan, and a political scientist at the University of Denver, where he founded the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. Her father, Joseph Albright, was a journalist and grandson of newspaper magnate Joseph Medill Patterson, who founded New York Daily News. She is a descendent of Joseph Medill, who owned the Chicago Tribune and had been elected mayor of Chicago and is the namesake of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
She received her MIA from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and her BA from Williams College.{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2021|title=President Biden Announces 10 Key Nominations |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/08/06/president-biden-announces-10-key-nominations/ |access-date=March 24, 2022|website=The White House}}{{Cite web |title=Alumni Go to Washington |url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/alumni-go-washington |access-date=March 24, 2022|website=Columbia Magazine}}
Career
Albright held a variety of positions in Citicorp, Bankers Trust Company, JP Morgan, and the Carlyle Group prior to entering the nonprofit sector.
From 2001 to 2009, she served as the chief financial and investment officer for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, where she worked on enhancing immunization services in the poorest countries.{{Cite web |title=Alice Albright, Class of 1983 |url=https://alumni-awards.williams.edu/bicentennial-medal/alice-albright/ |access-date=March 24, 2022|website=Alumni Awards}}
From 2009 to 2013, Albright served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.{{Cite web |date=July 8, 2009 |title=Four Key Executives Named to Help Lead Export-Import Bank of the United States |url=https://www.exim.gov/news/four-key-executives-named-help-lead-export-import-bank-united-states |access-date=March 24, 2022 |website=EXIM Bank}}
In 2013, Albright joined the Global Partnership for Education as CEO.{{Cite web |title=Alice Albright |url=https://www.wellesley.edu/albright/about/faculty/alice-albright |access-date=March 24, 2022|agency=Wellesley College}}{{Cite web |title=Statement by outgoing Chief Executive Officer of GPE, Alice P. Albright |url=https://www.globalpartnership.org/news/statement-outgoing-chief-executive-officer-gpe-alice-p-albright |access-date=March 24, 2022|agency=Global Partnership for Education}}{{Cite web |title=Global Partnership for Education reappoints Alice Albright as Chief Executive Officer|url=https://www.globalpartnership.org/news/global-partnership-education-reappoints-alice-albright-chief-executive-officer |access-date=March 24, 2022|agency=Global Partnership for Education}}
=MCC nomination=
On August 6, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Albright to be CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.{{Cite web |title=White House Nominates Alice Albright as Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation |url=https://www.mcc.gov/news-and-events/release/release-080621-white-house-nominates-alice-albright-as-ceo-of-mcc |access-date=March 24, 2022|website=Millennium Challenge Corporation}} Hearings were held by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on her nomination on December 14, 2021. The committee favorably reported the nomination to the Senate floor on January 12, 2022. Her nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate via voice vote on February 7, 2022.
On 23 May 2024, Albright was among the guests invited to the state dinner hosted by President Biden in honor of President William Ruto at the White House.Minho Kim (23 May 2024), [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/us/politics/full-guest-list-biden-state-dinner-kenya.html The Full Guest List for Biden’s State Dinner With Kenya] New York Times.
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Category:American people of Czech-Jewish descent
Category:Biden administration personnel
Category:Export–Import Bank of the United States people
Category:JPMorgan Chase people
Category:Medill–Patterson family
Category:Obama administration personnel
Category:School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni