The Honorable Elizabeth Frawley Bagley
Biography
Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is an attorney and a former diplomat. She served in numerous positions at the US Department of State, including US ambassador to Portugal; 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 Barack Obama in 2011.
Ambassador Bagley currently serves as Chair of SBI, Inc., a rural wireless company located in Show Low, Arizona.
From 2003-2009, Ambassador Bagley served as vice chair of the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, which required a presidential appointment and US Senate confirmation. She has also served as chair of the National Advisory Board for the Democratic National Committee and chair of the Clinton Library Board of Trustees.
Ambassador Bagley is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, The American Ireland Fund, the Atlantic Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Upon her departure from Portugal as the US ambassador, she received meritorious awards from the Portuguese Navy and Air Force and the Grand Cross of Prince Henry the Navigator, which is the President of Portugal’s highest civilian commendation. She also received an honorary doctor of laws from Regis College in 2003, the Global Democracy Award from the International Women’s Democracy Center in March 2005, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in May 2005, the 2010 Meridian International Public Diplomacy Award, and the 2013 Secretary of State’s Distinguished Honor Award.
Ambassador Bagley graduated cum laude from Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, with a bachelor of arts degree in French and Spanish. She is a 1987 cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where she obtained a juris doctorate 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 30 and a graduate of Stanford University; and son Conor, age 26 and a graduate of Yale University.