Miriam Sapiro

Senior Adviser (Non-resident), Strategic Technologies Program
Miriam Sapiro

Ambassador Miriam Sapiro is a visiting professor of the practice at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where she was named the inaugural Polis distinguished fellow. Throughout her career, she has successfully collaborated with governments and international organizations worldwide to address complex national security, foreign policy, economic, and humanitarian challenges. Her experience spans Democratic and Republican administrations, and includes working in senior roles in government, the private sector, and the nonprofit community. Upon confirmation by the Senate with the rank of ambassador, she served at the Office of the United States Trade Representative as deputy and then acting U.S. trade representative. Earlier, she worked at the National Security Council as special assistant to the president and counselor for Southeast European stabilization and reconstruction, and previously as director of European affairs. She began her career at the Department of State as an international lawyer before joining the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, where she helped negotiate the Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia. Amb. Sapiro currently serves on the board of directors of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and the board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. She has served on the Supervisory Board of the Lufthansa Group, on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and as the CEO of the NGO alliance InterAction. She received her BA from Williams College and JD from New York University School of Law, and was a Rotary fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.

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