

In 2013, she was the vice president of the board of the Friends of the Public Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan, based in Washington. ( March 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īfter returning to the United States, Ortagus joined the private sector, first as global relationship manager at Standard Chartered Bank working with clients from Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and then in 2016 as executive director at Ernst & Young (EY), where she helped found EY's Geostrategic Business Group working on geopolitical risk analysis for investors. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. She returned to the United States in 2011. She worked to counter illicit financial flows and was the principal liaison from the Treasury Department to the banking sector in Saudi Arabia. In 2010, Ortagus served as a deputy Treasury attaché at the U.S. Treasury Department, working as an intelligence analyst within the Treasury's Office of Intelligence and Analysis, covering North Africa and the Middle East. She attended a Hanukkah ceremony in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces in Baghdad. United States Agency for International Developmentįrom 2007 to 2008, Ortagus was a public affairs officer at United States Agency for International Development (USAID), spending several months in Baghdad, Iraq. In 2016, Ortagus was a volunteer on the Jeb Bush 2016 presidential campaign. Prior to that, she had been a campaign staffer for Florida Republican congressman Adam Putnam. In 2006, Ortagus worked as press secretary on former Deputy National Security Advisor K.

Ortagus speaks in Germany in 2019 Political campaigns Ortagus's research at JHU included work on counterinsurgency. In 2013, Ortagus graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a Master of Arts degree and a Master of Business Administration from the Carey Business School. She originally expressed interest in music, but switched her major to political science after the September 11 attacks. In 2005, Ortagus-a first-generation college student-graduated from Florida Southern College with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science.
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Ortagus volunteered with Students Against Destructive Decisions and Mothers Against Drunk Driving after her mentor was killed by a drunk driver in 1996. She grew up in Florida and won the Miss Florida Citrus title in 2003. Her father owned a cleanup and restoration company, and her mother was the office manager. Ortagus was born in Auburndale, Florida to Ronald E.
