President Donald Trump has picked State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert to be the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Nauert, a former journalist, will replace the current United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who has decided to leave the diplomatic position.
“Heather Nauert will be nominated for the ambassador to the United Nations,” Trump said on Friday, according to The Hill.
Besides her almost two-year experience with foreign policy at the State Department, Nauert, 48, brings journalistic career to the challenging diplomatic position. Before joining the State Department in early 2017, she had worked for ABC and Fox news channels.
Haley, who led U.S. diplomacy in the face of some unconventional Trump Administration positions on key foreign policy issues, did not bring much experience to the assignment. As governor of South Carolina, she had a lot of experience in dealing with administrative and political issues.
Nauert will be working closely with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the White House as the U.S. deals with some huge international issues like trade, Afghanistan, the Middle East and the emergence of China and Russia as influential players in several parts of the world.
