BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The business affairs of USACC are managed by its Board of Directors which is composed of distinguished individuals with an interest in the U.S.-Azerbaijan relationship.

Ms. Sedney is a Manager, International Government Relations for Chevron, with responsibility for Eurasian, Middle Eastern and European issues.  She joined Chevron in 1998 initially as a consultant for Caspian energy issues and assumed her present position in 2001.  Ms. Sedney has a background in international business development and academic and research chemistry.  Ms. Sedney was the first Commercial Associate at the U.S. Embassy in Baku in 1995, with responsibility for supporting U.S. business opportunities in Azerbaijan.  She also served at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, beginning in 1991, and the American Institute on Taiwan in 1990 with the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service.
 
Ms. Sedney taught graduate and undergraduate chemistry at Georgetown University, George Washington University, Williams College, and Louisiana State University.  She has conducted research in mixed valence chemistry at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Universit?t Bern in Switzerland.  She is the author of several papers on transition metal chemistry and chemical education.  Ms. Sedney holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and earned a doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry from Northeastern University in 1979.