Sherri Kraham

Sherri Kraham is the Deputy Vice President for Policy and International Relations at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). She was born and reared in Coral Springs, Florida where she attended Coral Springs High School. She holds a Political Science bachelor’s degree from Florida Atlantic University, and in 1999, Kraham received an International Business and Trade certificate and law degree from George Mason University School of Law.^[1] She is a member of the Virginia Bar Association. Sherri lives in Washington DC with her husband Qubad Talabani. This is totally out of date! She hasn't worked at MCC in years and she lives somewhere in Iraq now! This article should be deleted!

Before joining MCC in 2004, she worked at the U.S. Department of State for seven years. In 2003, she served a year-long assignment in Iraq for the Coalition Provisional Authority as part of the first civilian team dedicated to reconstruction efforts. Before serving in Iraq, she served as an adviser to an Under Secretary of State, where she oversaw various U.S. foreign assistance programs of approximately $5 billion annually, which focused on development, humanitarian assistance, democracy promotion, human rights, peacekeeping and security. From 1998–2001, she worked as the Iraq Desk Officer developing and implementing grant programs related to Iraq.

In a 2004 interview with United States Institute of Peace, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST), Kraham said of her duties in Iraq that coordination between the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and the military was very poor because they didn't speak the same language. She also said that inter-agency conflict in Washington impacted work in the field.^[2]

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