Nancy Soderberg (born 1959) is an American foreign policy strategist who held several senior level positions in the Clinton administration.
Soderberg was the third-highest-ranking official at the United States National Security Council from 1993-1997 and served as US Representative for Special Political Affairs at the US Mission to the United Nations with rank of Ambassador. She was a key adviser to President Clinton in negotiating the peace process in Northern Ireland. She served as Deputy Director of President Clinton's national security transition in 1992 and as a senior foreign policy adviser to Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (1980) and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University (1984).
Soderberg resides in Jacksonville, Florida where she is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of North Florida. She writes and comments regularly in national and international media on foreign policy.
In 2007, Soderberg served as a foreign policy adviser to the Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. She also serves as president of the Connect U.S. Fund.
Soderberg authored the book The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might. Her second book, co-authored with Brian Katulis, The Prosperity Agenda: What the World Wants from America--and What We Need in Return, was published in July 2008.