Madeleine Albright Charity Work, Events and Causes

Madeleine Albright is an American politician and diplomat. She was the first woman to have become the United States Secretary of State.

Albright currently serves as chair of Albright Stonebridge Group and as a professor of International Relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and numerous honorary degrees.

In May 2012, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Albright serves as chairperson of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation.

She is also the co-chair of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor and is a co-investor in a $350 million investment vehicle called Helios Towers Africa, which intends to buy or build thousands of mobile phone towers in Africa.