Americans for the Arts

Ann Stock served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) from 2010 through September 2013. ECA promotes international mutual understanding through a wide range of academic, cultural, private sector, professional, youth, and sports exchange programs. The exchanges engage youth, women and girls, artists, athletes, and emerging leaders in the United States and in more than 160 countries. Alumni of ECA exchange programs comprise over one million people around the world, including 77 Nobel Laureates and more than 390 current or former heads of state and government.

From 1997 to 2010, Mrs. Stock was Vice President of Institutional Affairs at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she oversaw the center’s expansion of its national and international profile. She also managed the center’s international arts management programs, and its government relations office, press office, and office of institutional affairs. Mrs. Stock was the Chief of Protocol, served on the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees (Assistant Secretary) and ran the Community Advisory Board.

In January 1993, Mrs. Stock was appointed Deputy Assistant to President William Jefferson Clinton and Social Secretary at the White House. As the Social Secretary, she was responsible for planning and implementing all events and special projects initiated by President and Mrs. Clinton at the White House.

Prior to working in the White House, Mrs. Stock was Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Relations for Bloomingdale’s Department Stores nationwide. During the 1980 and 1984 Presidential election campaigns, Stock was Deputy Press Secretary to Vice President Walter Mondale. She started her career as the Press Office Manager for Vice President Mondale at the White House.

Mrs. Stock is currently a trustee of: The Women’s Foreign Policy Group (Chair), The White House Historical Association (Retail Advisory Chair), IREX, Meridian International (Co-Chair Development), and Americans for the Arts (Public Sector Task Force Chair).