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Maria Figueroa Küpçü specializes in the development of international advocacy campaigns, with particular expertise in stakeholder engagement in the global policymaking process. As a senior director at the market research and consulting firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, she guided presidential and parliamentary campaigns in South Korea, Ukraine, Serbia, Bermuda, and Zimbabwe, and helped Global Fortune 500 executive teams develop strategic communications programs. She has held positions at the Council on Foreign Relations and at the United Nations as a poverty and development analyst. In 1995, Ms. Figueroa Küpçü co-founded the international advocacy network Youth for Habitat II and was a principal organizer of the involvement of nongovernmental organizations in U.N. policymaking on social development issues. Ms. Figueroa Küpçü was selected as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and her writing has appeared in a number of books and publications.

As a Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation, Ms. Figueroa-Küpçü examined the growing influence of non-state actors in the design and execution of U.S. foreign policy.