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Charlotte M. (Charlie) Ponticelli was appointed Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor's International Labor Affairs Bureau in May 2007. Previously, Ms. Ponticelli served for almost four years as the State Department's Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues, followed by an additional year at State as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration.
Ms. Ponticelli has extensive government experience, serving previously at the White House (Director of Congressional Correspondence in the Office of Legislative Affairs), the U.S. Agency for International Development (Congressional Liaison Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean), and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
During the Administration of President George H.W. Bush, Ms. Ponticelli was Director of Human Rights and Women's Affairs in the State Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs, and later moved to the International Republican Institute, where she designed and implemented several projects to assist democratic forces in the Balkans. From 2001-2002, she was Director of Lectures and Seminars at the Heritage Foundation.
Ms. Ponticelli is the recipient of various Superior Honor Awards from the State Department. She received the Veritas Award from Albertus Magnus College in 1996. In 1984, she was given the Outstanding Young Alumna Award at her Alma mater, Hood College, in Maryland. On December 4, 2006, she received the "Afghan-American Sisterhood Award" from Ariana Outreach in recognition of her work on behalf of the women of Afghanistan. In addition to her Bachelor of Arts degree (cum laude) from Hood College, Mrs. Ponticelli earned a Master of Arts degree in Spanish literature through New York University's program in Madrid and studied in the doctoral program in Spanish at the Catholic University of America.
 Marcia Eugenio is currently serving as the Acting Associate Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs. She was appointed to the Department’s Career Senior Executive Service in March 2005 and regularly serves as the Director of the Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT).
In her capacity as Director of OCFT, Ms. Eugenio leads a team of 35 employees who are responsible for preparing and publishing annual Congressionally-mandated reports on international child labor issues, administering almost $600 million in grants to organizations engaged in efforts to eliminate exploitive child labor around the world, administrating Executive Order 13126, which prohibits federal agencies from purchasing goods made with forced and indentured child labor, and implementing requirements under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 related to trafficking in persons, child labor, and forced labor.
Ms. Eugenio has 17 years of Federal government experience — most of it at the Department of Labor. She also served on a temporary assignment as a Senior Program Officer at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Ms. Eugenio received a Bachelors Degree in International Studies from the City College of New York in 1989 and a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the University of Michigan in 1991.
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