Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is a former diplomat and attorney, who served in numerous positions at the Department of State, including U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1994 – 1997); Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (1997 -2001); Special Representative for Global Partnerships (2009 – 2010); Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2010 – 2013) and Secretary of State John Kerry (2013 – 2017); and Special Representative to the United Nations General Assembly, appointed by President Obama in 2011.

Ambassador Bagley currently serves as Chair of SBI, Inc., a rural wireless company located in Show Low, Arizona. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, American Ireland Fund, National Park Foundation, Atlantic Council, Council of American Ambassadors, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Ambassador Bagley graduated cum laude from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, with a B.A. degree in French and Spanish. She is a 1987 cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where she obtained a J.D. Degree in International Law. Ambassador Bagley is a member in good standing of the Massachusetts Bar and District of Columbia Bar.

She is the proud mother of two children, a daughter, Vaughan, age 27, a graduate of Stanford University, and son Conor, age 24, a graduate of Yale University.