Personal Life
Francke was born in Baghdad to an affluent family and spent some of her childhood there. Her background is unusual in that her father is a Shiite Muslim and her mother is a Sunni Muslim. She went to boarding school in England and later studied at Cambridge University where she earned a Masters Degree in English and at the Sorbonne. She worked as a banker and a currency trader in Lebanon and Bahrain, as well as London. Her family moved to England in 1978 and later emigrated again, this time to the United States in 1981. She became an American citizen in 1987.
Rend is married and has one child, Christopher, who recently graduated from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and is an amateur DJ.
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