The Foreign Service Journal, June 2017

18 JUNE 2017 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL He served on the House International Relations Committee and helped draft significant legislation, including the Mil- lenniumChallenge Act, the legislation establishing George W. Bush’s signature President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act. From 2007 to 2009, Green served as the Bush administration’s U.S. ambassador to Tanzania. He served two terms on the Board of Directors of the MillenniumChal- lenge Corporation, having been appointed to that post by the Obama administration. From 2011 through early 2013, Mr. Green served as senior director at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. He then became president and chief execu- tive officer of the Initiative for Global Development, a nonprofit organization that engages corporate leaders to reduce poverty through business growth and investment in Africa. Mr. Green joined the International Republican Institute as president in Janu- ary 2014. He also co-chairs the Consensus for Development Reform, a coalition that aims to make development policy more effective and growth-oriented. Mr. Green’s nomination was widely praised across the development com- munity and on both sides of the aisle in Congress. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson welcomed the nomination, stating that Mr. Green would “help us prioritize where America’s future development invest- ments will be spent so that we can ensure every tax dollar advances our country’s security and prosperity.” n —Gemma Dvorak, Associate Editor