Meroe Park
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{{Short description|American intelligence official (born 1966)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Meroë Park
| image = Meroe Park.jpg
| office1 = Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Acting
| president1 = Donald Trump
| term_start1 = January 20, 2017
| term_end1 = January 23, 2017
| predecessor1 = John O. Brennan
| successor1 = Mike Pompeo
| office2 = Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
| president2 = Barack Obama
| term_start2 = 2013
| term_end2 = 2017
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|12|1}}
| birth_place = Eugene, Oregon, U.S.
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| children = 2
| education = Georgetown University (BSc)
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Meroë Park (born December 1, 1966) is an American former intelligence official who served as Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2013 to 2017. Prior to Mike Pompeo's confirmation, she briefly served as Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2017.{{Cite news |first1=Philip |last1=Rucker |first2=Greg |last2=Miller |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/01/21/trump-to-visit-cia-headquarters-after-sharply-criticizing-the-intelligence-community/ |date=January 21, 2017 |title=Trump visits CIA headquarters after sharply criticizing the intelligence community |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=February 11, 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?meroepark |title=Meroe Park |work=C-SPAN.org |language=en-us |access-date=February 11, 2017}}{{Cite news |first=Robert |last=Windrem |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/sisterhood-spies-women-crack-code-cia-f2D11594601 |date=November 14, 2013 |title=Sisterhood of Spies: Women crack the code at the CIA |newspaper=NBC News |access-date=February 11, 2017 |language=en}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-21/trump-rejects-notion-of-feud-with-cia-in-day-one-visit-to-agency |first1=Margaret |last1=Talev |first2=Jennifer |last2=Jacobs |title=Trump Rejects Notion of Feud With CIA in Day-One Visit |date=January 21, 2017 |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |access-date=February 11, 2017}} On January 27, 2020, she became Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Smithsonian Institution.
Early life
Park was born to Korean-born professor Kwangjai Park and Marcia Sherman in Eugene, Oregon and raised there. She graduated from Georgetown University (BSc).
Career
Park worked at the CIA for 27 years, during which she served as Chief of Human Resources, Director of Corporate Resources for Analysis, Chief of Payroll, and as a senior mission support officer for locations in Eurasia and Western Europe. During her career, she received two Presidential Rank Awards. After serving as Executive Director and briefly as Acting Director, she retired from the intelligence community in June 2017.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=539918962&privcapId=874003|title=Meroe Park: Executive Biography|work=Bloomberg|access-date=November 30, 2017}}
After leaving the CIA, Park became Non-executive Director at the Bank of Butterfield in October 2017.{{Cite press release |url=http://bernews.com/2017/10/former-cia-executive-director-joins-bank-board/ |title=Former CIA Executive Director Joins Bank Board |work=Bermuda News |date=October 6, 2017 |access-date=August 21, 2019}} Bank of Butterfield is a Bermuda-based banking and wealth management firm which operates on Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey and in the United Kingdom.{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/company-profile/NTB.N|title=Profile: Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Ltd |work=Reuters |access-date=August 21, 2019}} She also became Executive Vice President of the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, where she oversees the different programs of that organization and its work with federal agencies.{{Cite web |url=https://ourpublicservice.org/staff/meroe-park/ |title=Meroe Park |work=Partnership for Public Service |access-date=June 5, 2019 |archive-date=June 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605210408/https://ourpublicservice.org/staff/meroe-park/ |url-status=dead }} In February 2018, she was named a Distinguished Executive-in-Residence at Georgetown University.{{cite web|url=https://www.georgetown.edu/news/former-cia-official-serving-as-georgetown-distinguished-executive-in-residence/ |work=Georgetown University |access-date=11 February 2023 |title=Former CIA official serving as Georgetown Distinguished Executive-In-Residence|date=February 26, 2018}} In December 2019, Park was appointed deputy secretary and chief operating officer of the Smithsonian Institution. She is responsible for supervising 6,000 employees at 19 museums, 21 libraries, nine research centers and the National Zoo.{{cite news | last =McGlone | first =Peggy | title =Smithsonian secretary taps former intelligence officer as deputy | newspaper =Washington Post | date = December 16, 2020| url =https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/smithsonian-secretary-taps-former-intelligence-officer-as-deputy/2019/12/16/298ea4c2-1de6-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html | access-date = May 15, 2020}}
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Category:American people of Korean descent
Category:Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency
Category:Georgetown University alumni
Category:Obama administration personnel