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Sylvia Mary Burwell (née Mathews; born June 23, 1965) is an American government and non-profit executive who was the 15th president of American University from June 1, 2017 to June 30, 2024. Burwell is the first woman to serve as the university's president.
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell is American University's 15th president and the first woman to serve as president. President Burwell is a broad-ranging, effective leader who has served at the highest levels of government, philanthropy, and academia.
Oct 2, 2013 · A single person shut down the entire U.S. government for the first time in 17 years. Not a congressman, but an unelected woman named Sylvia Burwell who, as the relatively new director of the ...
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Burwell was born in Hinton, West Virginia. She attended Harvard University and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University before beginning her political career.
Below is an abbreviated outline of Burwell's academic, professional, and political career: 1. June 9, 2014 – January 20, 2017: Secretary of Health and Human Services 2. April 24, 2013 – June 9, 2014: Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget(OMB) 3. 2012 - 2013: President of the Walmart Foundation 4. 2006 - 2011: President of the Bill an...
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Burwell was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 5, 2014, by a vote of 78-17. She succeeded Kathleen Sebelius.
Director of the OMB
Burwell was confirmed by the Senate on April 24, 2013, by a vote of 96-0. Prior to her appointment, the OMB position was vacant for over a year after Jack Lew left the position in January 2012. She was succeeded by Shaun Donovan.
Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update. Burwell and her husband have two children.
Jul 1, 2017 · Throngs of people began gathering just before 9 a.m. The woman they were so eager to meet, AU president Sylvia Mathews Burwell, had arrived for her first day on the job—on a bicycle, with a pack strapped to her back—without fanfare an hour earlier.
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell was born in 1965 in Hinton, West Virginia. She graduated with a degree in government from Harvard University in 1987 and went on to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, graduating with a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics.
Sylvia Mathews (Burwell) discusses her long period of service in the Clinton White House. Her interview covers her political background and origins, the 1992 election, the debates over NAFTA ratification, the transition period after the 1992 election, her role in the formation of the National Economic Council (NEC), and her time on that council ...
