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EHHS grad assumes new State Department post

Alexandra Bell

By Lightning Reports, Published: February 4, 2021

Alexandra Bell, a Henderson County native, assumed her duties as deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification and Compliance on Jan. 20.

From 2017 to 2021, Bell was the senior policy director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and the Council for a Livable World. Previously, Bell served as a senior advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security and as an advisor in AVC. Before joining the Department of State in 2010, she worked on nuclear policy issues at the Ploughshares Fund and the Center for American Progress.

Bell received a master’s degree in International Affairs from the New School and a Bachelor’s degree in Peace, War and Defense from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 2001-2003, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica. Bell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of East Henderson High School, she is the daughter of Ed and Sinikka Bell of Tuxedo.