Farah Pandith is a foreign policy strategist, author, and diplomacy entrepreneur. She has served three American Presidents.

Farah’s career in government earned her various awards including the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Honor Award. She has served at the National Security Council, the US Department of State and the US Agency for International Development. She is the main architect of the Women in Public Service Project, a first of its kind global movement launched at the US Department of State in 2011 to bring women into the public service sector. Farah was Vice President of International Business at ML Strategies, LLC in the years leading up to the 9/11 terror attacks.

Farah is a senior advisor and commissioner for CSIS’ “A New Comprehensive Strategy for Countering Violent Extremism.” Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg View, The Guardian and The Boston Globe.

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