Erin Clancy is a leading expert on national security, international affairs, diplomacy, and tech policy. Erin is currently a global public policy manager on Meta’s Strategic Response Policy team, where she manages high-profile incidents and sensitive content moderation issues that affect the business and reputational risk of the company.

Before joining Meta in 2021, Erin advanced U.S. foreign policy as a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State for 15 years. Her diplomatic assignments included the U.S. Embassies in Syria, Jordan, and Oman, the State Department’s Office of UN Political Affairs, special assistant to then Deputy Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, and the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York, where she was the lead American negotiator in the UN Security Council on Syria and Burma. In 2019, Erin received the State Department’s highest award, the Distinguished Honor Award, for negotiating the successful evacuation of over 400 members of the Syrian Civil Defense (the White Helmets) out of Syria.

Outside of her work for the U.S. government, Erin has advised two presidential campaigns on foreign policy and national security issues. She is a non-resident fellow with the Center for National and International Security, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Fellowship for emerging leaders and the Atlantic Council’s LGBTI fellowship.

She holds degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and Whittier College, where she serves on the Board of Trustees.