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Lauren Van Metre leads WIIS into a new security era

October 13, 2025Cory Harris, Editor

WASHINGTON—When Lauren Van Metre recently became president and CEO of Women in International Security (WIIS) in July, she brought decades of experience navigating the evolving global security landscape. Van Metre’s career began at the Pentagon and the State Department in the 1990s, a time of shifting geopolitical dynamics. “I started my career at the Pentagon and at the State Department, working in an era in the '90s where we were dismantling a sort of...

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