Biography
Rosemarie Forsythe is Director, International Political Strategy at Exxon Mobil Corporation. For the past 30 years, she has worked as a scholar, US diplomat, US policymaker and international business executive. During that time, she led or participated in negotiations to end conflicts, eliminate nuclear weapons in three countries, and build strategic oil pipelines. She also participated in constructing a new US post-Cold War strategy and conceived a new US policy toward oil in the Caspian region. In her current position, she advises the CEO and Management Committee in devising strategies to deal with global and cross-regional socio-political and economic trends affecting ExxonMobil's worldwide portfolio and developing strategies based on the implications of those trends. As a diplomat for more than 11 years, Ms. Forsythe served in the Soviet Union, several post-Soviet states, Belgium, France, Australia, and at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. Trained internationally as a jeweler, she makes professional-grade fine jewelry collections for the benefit of numerous charities around the world. Ms. Forsythe holds academic degrees from the University of California at Los Angeles (MA and PhD work), Columbia University (MA), and Indiana University (BA) in both Political Science and Soviet Area Studies.