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to serve with Ambassador Crocker, to help the Iraqis – and to help the Embassy help the Iraqis – meet the benchmarks that the Congress and the President expect to get passed. [12]

With Stephen Hadley, she is also credited as being one of the original advocates in the White House of the 2007 "surge" strategy. [13] [14] On September 15, 2007, she left the White House and began teaching at Harvard. [15]

She was an advisor to Mitt Romney during his 2012 presidential campaign. [16] In 2013, O'Sullivan was a signatory to an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court in support of same-sex marriage during the Hollingsworth v. Perry case. [17] During 2013, she acted as Vice-Chair to Richard Haass at talks between the political parties in Northern Ireland. [18] [19]

O'Sullivan is also a One Young World Counsellor, speaking about "Peace & Conflict Resolution to a group of 1,300 young people [20] in Dublin, Ireland in 2013. O'Sullivan is currently the Chairwoman of the North American branch of the Rockefeller Trilateral Commission.

Controversy

Nonprofit and media reports have questioned whether O'Sullivan's academic work has been shaped by conflicts of interest. O'Sullivan, a noted climate scholar, has sat on the board of global oil corporation Hess. At the Harvard Kennedy School, she leads the Geopolitics of Energy initiative. According to a 2021 investigative report from student group Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard on funding Harvard research, this initiative has received funding from BP, and took steps to cover up this fact after becoming aware of investigatory efforts into the initiative's funding sources. [21] [22]

O'Sullivan was instrumental in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. [23] In April 2021, the Washington Post issued a correction to an op-ed by O'Sullivan after the original version failed to disclose her board membership at Raytheon Corp, one of the largest weapons manufacturers in the world. [24]

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