Azita raji biography of jose

On October 23, 2014, President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Azita Raji, a financial supporter of the president’s, to be the next ambassador to Sweden.

 

Raji was born September 29, 1961, in Tehran, Iran.

Azita Raji, Political.

Azita Raji, Political.

Raji follows:] Prepared Statement of Azita Raji Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Shaheen, and distinguished members of the committee.

Azita Raji, 60, died Feb. 6, in Belvedere, Calif.

AZITA RAJI, OF CALIFORNIA, TO BE AMBASSADOR EX-. TRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF THE UNITED.

Azita Raji, who has been nominated to be our Ambassador to Sweden.

She went to high school in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she skied competitively and played chess. She came to the United States at age 17 to attend Barnard College at Columbia University, where she graduated in 1983 with a B.A.

in French and architecture. Raji later returned to Columbia to study for an MBA in finance, which she earned in 1991. She became a U.S. citizen in January 1988.

 

Raji went to work in the financial industry, first at Drexel Burnham Lambert, which went into bankruptcy in 1990 as a result of its illegal acts involving junk bonds.

She later worked for Solomon Brothers and ultimately JPMorgan Securities, where she was a vice president working with fixed-income investments. Raji is a chartered financial analyst.

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