Madeleine May Kunin is currently the bicentennial scholar in residence at Middlebury College, Vermont. She served as the United States Ambassador to Switzerland from 1996 to 1999, where she facilitated the return of Swiss bank account funds to Holocaust survivors. Ambassador Kunin is the former deputy secretary of education, where she worked closely with President Clinton and Education Secretary Richard W. Riley to have the President's education reform agenda enacted into law - a series of legislative acts that included the Goals 2000: Educate America Act; the School to Work Opportunities Act; and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools Act. She established the department's Office of Educational Technology, and was instrumental in the development of the administration's direct loan program - an innovative form of lending that has simplified the student loan process, saving billions of dollars. She chaired the Committee on Education and Training for the National Science and Technology Council. Ambassador Kunin has served on the President's Council on Sustainable Development, the board of the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, and the President's Interagency Council on Women. She was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Governor of Vermont from 1985 to 1991, she is the only woman to have served three terms as governor of a state. Ambassador Kunin was a faculty member at Session 348, Educating Youth: Challenges for the Future, 1997.