Kelley Eckels Currie (née Eckels) is an American human rights lawyer[1] and former government official who served as the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues from 2020 to 2021.

[3] Before assuming her role as Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, she was a senior fellow at the Project 2049 Institute, a think tank focused on security issues and public policy in Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.

She previously held senior public policy positions with the United States Department of State and several international and nongovernmental human rights and humanitarian organizations.

Currie also served as foreign operations appropriations associate and staff director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus for Representative John Porter.

[5] This nomination was submitted in June 2019 and approved by voice vote of the U.S. Senate on December 19, 2019.