Elizabeth Verville is the Acting U.S.

United States

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 Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Narcotics and the Bureau of Law Enforcement Affairs. Verville led the U.S. Delegation to develop the United Nations

United Nations

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 Transnational Organized Crime Convention. Prior to her current assignment, she was director for global affairs on the National Security Council

National Security Council

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 staff for international crime

International crime

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, counternarcotics and counterterrorism and deputy director of the first U.S. interagency office to protect the nation’s critical information infrastructure.

Verville received her A.B.

Bachelor of Arts

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 from Duke University

Duke University

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 in 1961.