Before joining USAID, Ambassador Coleman served on the Biden Transition Team, leading the review of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.

From 2018 to 2020, Dr. Coleman was the COO of GiveDirectly, a New York-based non-profit that helps families living in extreme poverty by making unconditional cash transfers via mobile phones.

Coleman started her career as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in New York in 1992 and was elected partner in the firm's financial institutions group in 1998.

She left McKinsey to become CEO of NursingHands, Inc., a web-based business that provided continuing education, e-commerce and job placement for healthcare professionals.

[2] Returning to international affairs, Coleman became a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she focused on the political economy of the Middle East.

In her statement before the Committee, Coleman noted the significant gap between the promise of the UN and the reality of its shortcomings, and vowed to ensure that the "UN is deploying its resources in the most efficient and effective way.

Coleman led U.S. efforts to reform the $40 billion UN system by imposing fiscal discipline, increasing transparency and accountability, and driving structural changes.

[18] Additionally, she fought to end the unfair exclusion of Israel within the UN system, including by successfully negotiating a milestone agreement to recognize Yom Kippur as an official UN holiday.

During the fall of 2016 and early 2017, Coleman represented the United States in the UN Security Council, with responsibility for Africa, Asia and peacekeeping issues.

In that capacity, she negotiated Security Council resolutions on South Sudan, Darfur, The Gambia, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and North Korea.