Professional Affiliation

Permanent Representative of the U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome

Expert Bio

Ambassador Cindy Hensley McCain was sworn in by the Biden Administration to serve as the U.S. Ambassador the UN Agencies in Rome on November 5, 2021.  She has dedicated her life to improving the lives of those less fortunate both in the United States and around the world.

She is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the McCain Institute for International Leadership at Arizona State University, where she oversaw the organization’s focus on advancing character-driven global leadership based on security, economic opportunity, freedom, and human dignity as well as chairing the Institute’s Human Trafficking Advisory Council.

In addition to her work at the McCain Institute, she served on the Board of Directors of Project C.U.R.E, CARE, Operation Smile, HaloTrust and the Advisory Boards of Too Small To Fail and Warriors and Quiet Waters.

McCain holds an undergraduate degree in Education and a Master’s in Special Education from the University of Southern California.

She was the Chairman of her family’s business, Hensley Beverage Company, which is one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the nation.  Ambassador McCain is the wife of the late U.S. Senator John McCain.  Together, they have four children.