Frazer is an accomplished policy leader and academic with an extensive understanding of issues facing Sub-Saharan Africa. Jendayi Frazer, Assistant Secretary of State for the Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs. Toronto, Ontario (December 12, 2013) The MasterCard Foundation announced today the appointment of Dr.
But I think you’ll find it pretty interesting and even entertaining. Frazer Joins the Board of The MasterCard Foundation. And we spend the first 15 minutes or so discussing the role of commodity markets in African agricultural development before pivoting to a longer conversation about her life and career. This is a longer episode. John Heinz College’s School of Public Policy and Management (read. She joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009 as Distinguished Public Service Professor with joint appointments in the Department of Social and Decision Sciences, and in the H. We kick off this episode discussing Frazer’s newest project, which is working to establish commodity markets in Africa. Frazer is known worldwide as a policy leader and expert on African Affairs.
She was also the first female US ambassador to South Africa.įrazer grew up in a military family, and we discuss how her father’s experience in the Vietnam war informed her own up bringing and understanding of the world at a young age.When Frazer was an undergraduate at Stanford, she struck up a friendship and mentorship with a young international relations professor there named Condoleezza Rice, who would eventually become her PHD advisor and boss at the National Security Council and State Department. Jendayi Frazer was a top ranking African policy official in the Bush administration, serving both at the National Security Council and in the State Department.