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BIOGRAPHY Paula DeSutter Assistant Secretary, Verification and Compliance Term of Appointment: 08/14/2002 to present
Paula A. DeSutter was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for Verification and Compliance on August 14, 2002. She brings to her position an extensive background in verification and a career focus on national security and intelligence. Ms. DeSutter served for over 4 years as a Professional Staff Member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). Ms. DeSutter was professional staff liaison to Senator Jon Kyl and was responsible for legislation and oversight of intelligence collection, analysis and activities related to proliferation, terrorism, arms control, the Persian Gulf States, India, Pakistan, China, and Afghanistan. Prior to her work in the Senate, Ms. DeSutter held numerous positions in the Verification and Intelligence Bureau in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), moving from Foreign Affairs Specialist to Chief of the Compliance and Implementation Division. She was a Special Assistant for Verification and Compliance to the Assistant Director for Intelligence and Verification for the Bureau. Ms. DeSutter was selected to represent ACDA as a student at the National War College, then returned to the National Defense University as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at its Center for Counter-Proliferation Research. Her publications include Deterring Iranian NBC Use, which appeared in the National Defense University’s Institute of National Strategic Studies in April 1997; a proliferation chapter, Strategic Assessment ’97 from the Institute of National Strategic Studies, and a book, Denial and Jeopardy: Deterring Iranian Use of NBC Weapons (NDU Press, 1998). Ms. DeSutter holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Southern California and a Master of Science degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College. Her work at the National War College earned her the President’s Strategic Vision Award for Excellence in Research and Writing, and she was a Distinguished Graduate. Previously, she received a BA in Political Science and an MA in Economics from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Released on August 19, 2002 |