Melanne Verveer

Cognoscenti contributor

Ambassador Melanne Verveer is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. She served as the first U.S. Ambassador for Global Women’s Issues, a position to which she was nominated by President Obama in 2009.

Recently published

Refugees disembark from a U.S. air force aircraft after an evacuation flight from Kabul at the Rota naval base in Rota, southern Spain, on August 31, 2021. (Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images)

Thousands of Afghan women risked their lives to help the US. Congress should do right by them

On International Women’s Day, Amb. Melanne Verveer and Lina Tori Jan are thinking about thousands of Afghan refugee women -- evacuated to the U.S. in August 2021 -- who may...

Cognoscenti

Mar 8, 2023