Harriet Babbitt

Ms. Babbitt served as U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States from 1993 to 1997. While in that role she led the U.S. negotiating effort to completion of the world’s first anti-corruption convention and helped strengthen the Inter-American Human Rights Commission.

Ms. Babbitt has served as Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. As the second most senior official overseeing the U.S. foreign assistance program, she oversaw programs in the fields of democratization, rule-of-law, humanitarian relief, women’s empowerment, economic growth, education, health, and the environment. Her responsibilities included oversight of USAID efforts to assist post-conflict reconstruction in the Balkans and East Timor.

Ms. Babbitt also served as a Senior Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and spent almost 20 years as a litigation attorney in Arizona.