Goli Ameri

Goli Ameri is a US Representative to the 60th Session of the United Nations General Assembly where she has worked on UN Management Reform, the creation of the Human Rights Council and due to her extensive background in the field of high-technology on the Internet Governance portfolio. As part of her responsibilities in cooperation with the World Affairs Council, Ms. Ameri organized and hosted a visit by eight Asian United Nations Ambassadors as part of a public diplomacy trip to Portland, Oregon. Prior to her UN assignment, Ms. Ameri served as a Public Delegate to the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. During the 2004 election cycle, Ms. Ameri was the Republican nominee for Congress in Oregon’s first district.  She distinguished herself as the top challenger in the country, winning her primary in a landslide, and named as one of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s ‘Super-Six’ candidates.

Prior to her public service activities, she founded eTinium, a small consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications industry. She is the author of over fifty market studies and wrote a bi-monthly industry analysis column for Telephony magazine. She has been quoted in such publications as The National Business Journals, The Oregonian, The Seattle Times, The San Jose Mercury News, and The Internet Week and has been invited a speaker and moderator to industry conferences worldwide. Prior to founding eTinium, Ms. Ameri has held a broad career in the high technology industry culminating in her last position as a Director in U.S. Leasing, a former division of Ford Motor Credit and Fleet Bank.

Ms. Ameri has a keen interest in world-wide democratic movements and is a supporter of the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution, examining the conditions and prospects for democracy in Iran. She has testified at the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe on Iran: A Transatlantic Approach. She has also been a supporter of the Democracy and the Rule of Law project at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Ms. Ameri has been invited to speak about the United Nations and the need for democratic movements at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, the World Affairs Council of Oregon, and the Conference on World Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Ms. Ameri's other areas of interest are education and women's issues. She currently serves on the steering committee of the Babson in Oregon MBA program and is also a member of the Oregon Steering Committee on the Campaign for Undergraduate Education for Stanford University. She has been a past trustee and Vice Chair for Development for the Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon overseeing fundraising activities for the scholarship fund and teacher education. Ms. Ameri has also taught Junior Achievement classes in Oregon. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the National Education for Women’s Leadership at the Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University and has been an Oregon delegate to the National Republican Women’s Conference. Being a breast cancer survivor, Ms. Ameri has been a supporter of a variety of cancer research foundations.

Ms. Ameri is currently working on a non-fiction book titled “Seven Reasons Why I Love America.” She was born in Tehran, Iran and completed her Master and Bachelor of Arts in Communications and French literature from Stanford University, and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She is fluent in French and Persian and has a working knowledge of Spanish.