Chelsea Clinton was given the Secret Service codename “Energy” when she moved with her parents into the White House, and her work as a writer and global health advocate shows she has lived up to the moniker.
The daughter of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former U.S. President Bill Clinton has authored and co-authored ten books and highly acclaimed scholarly work on global health policy. She is also a proponent of women’s rights, AIDS research, and global humanitarianism.
Clinton has an extensive academic background, having attended the private Sidwell Friends School, Stanford University, the University of Oxford, Columbia University, and New York University. After completing her Master of Philosophy degree in international relations at Oxford in 2003, she began working for consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York City. She was the youngest person in her class to be hired. In 2006, she joined the hedge fund Avenue Capital Group as an Investment Analyst. She spent the following year campaigning extensively on American college campuses for her mother’s Democratic presidential nomination bid.
In 2011, Clinton joined NBC as a Special Correspondent reporting on the series “Making a Difference.” She left in 2014 to focus on her father’s Clinton Foundation, which strives to improve global health, create opportunities for women, and promote economic growth. She subsequently became Vice Chair of the foundation.
Clinton’s first children’s book, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired and Get Going!, was published in 2015. Her second, She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World, became a best seller, topping The New York Times Children's Picture Books Best Sellers list. The companion to that book, She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History, spent 40 weeks on the list.
In addition to her books, Clinton’s articles and opinion pieces have been published in Time magazine, the Huffington Post, CNN, and Refinery 29. She has received a number of awards and honors, including the Children's Defense Fund Children's Champion Award in 2019, the Ida S. Scudder Centennial Woman's Empowerment Award in 2018, and the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize in 2017.