The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C. It grants degrees at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Paula Jon Dobriansky is an American diplomat,public official,and foreign policy expert who served as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2001–2009) and the President's Envoy to Northern Ireland (2007–2009). A specialist in Central/East European affairs and the former Soviet Union,trans-Atlantic relations,and political-military affairs,Dobriansky held key senior roles in the administrations of five U.S. presidents.
Charles Woodruff Yost was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.
Marc Isaiah Grossman is an American former diplomat and government official. He served as United States Ambassador to Turkey,Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs,and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was most recently the United States Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and is currently a Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group,a business strategic advisory firm headed by former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen,and a Vice Chair of the German Marshall Fund board of trustees.
The Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program is a two-year training and leadership development program at a United States government agency,administered by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM),for advanced degree holders. After completing the program,agencies may convert PMFs to permanent federal civilian employees.
The Bureau of Population,Refugees,and Migration (PRM) is a bureau within the United States Department of State.
Phyllis Elliott Oakley was an American diplomat who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population,Refugees,and Migration (1994–1997) and Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1997–1999). She was married to former Ambassador Robert B. Oakley and was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council on Foreign Relations. Oakley was a graduate of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,at Tufts University.
Richard Boyce Norland is an American diplomat. He has served as the United States Ambassador to Libya.
Richard Rahul Verma is an American diplomat,who serves as the deputy secretary of state for management and resources,a position he has held since April 5,2023. He served as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs from 2009 to 2011,and as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. He served as the chief legal officer and head of global public policy at Mastercard,from 2020 to 2023,and as the vice chair of the Asia Group from 2017 to 2020,where he oversaw the firm's South Asia practice. He also practiced law for many years at Steptoe &Johnson LLP in Washington DC,and served as a Senior Counselor and Lead of the India and South Asia practice at Albright Stonebridge Group.
Rose Eilene Gottemoeller is an American diplomat who served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO from October 2016 to October 2019 under Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Before then she was the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. State Department.
Earl Anthony Wayne is an American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs,Ambassador to Argentina and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan,Wayne served nearly four years as Ambassador to Mexico. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August,2011. He departed Mexico City for Washington July 31,2015 and retired from the State Department on September 30,2015. Wayne attained the highest rank in the U.S. diplomatic service:Career Ambassador. He is currently a Professorial Lecturer and Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University's School of International Service where he teaches courses related to diplomacy and US foreign policy. Wayne also works with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,the Atlantic Council,the Center for Strategic and International Studies,. Wayne is co-chair of the Mexico Institute's Advisory Board at the Wilson Center. He is also on the board of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Public Diplomacy Council of America. Wayne is an independent consultant,speaker and writer and works with several not-for-profit professional associations. He was an adviser for HSBC Latin America on improving management of financial crime risk from 2015 until 2019 and served on the board of the American Foreign Service Association from 2017 to 2019.
Tamara Cofman Wittes is an American writer and public figure. She became the fourth president of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in 2024. Before joining the institute,she served as director of foreign assistance for the US State Department. Until November 2021,she was a senior fellow in the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. She directed the Center from March 2012 through March 2017. From November 2009 through January 2012,she was a deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs at the United States Department of State. Wittes has written about U.S. foreign policy,democratic change in the Arab world and about the Arab–Israeli conflict.
Thomas O. Melia currently serves as Washington director at PEN America. Previously,he served in the Obama Administration as USAID's Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia (2015–2017) and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy,Human Rights,and Labor at the United States Department of State (2010–2015). Melia also served as Executive Director of Democracy International,an organization that designs,implements,and evaluates democracy and governance programs around the world. Additionally,he was the Deputy Executive Director of Freedom House,a human rights organization.
Mary Beth Long is an American foreign policy expert,entrepreneur,and former U.S. Government official. From 2007 to 2009,Long served as the first woman confirmed by the U.S. Senate as an Assistant Secretary of Defense,and as such,was the first female civilian four-star military equivalent in the history of the Pentagon. She led the International Security Affairs (ISA) office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense responsible for policy for the Middle East,Europe,and Africa. She was also the first woman ever to be appointed as Chair of NATO's High Level Group (HLG),the highest-level responsible for NATO's nuclear policy and reporting directly to the Secretary General of NATO.
Arthur Eugene "Gene" Dewey was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Population,Refugees,and Migration from 2002 to 2005.
Elizabeth D. Sherwood-Randall is an American national security and energy leader,public servant,educator,and author currently serving as the 11th United States Homeland Security Advisor to President Joe Biden since 2021. She previously served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations and held appointments at academic institutions and think tanks.
Janine Anne Davidson is an American public servant who has served as the president of the Metropolitan State University of Denver since 2017. Davidson is known for expertise on topics such as military operations,U.S. foreign policy and national security policy as well as higher education leadership.
Mark P. Lagon is an American political scientist and practitioner. His areas of expertise include human rights,global health,human trafficking,and global institutions and governance. Lagon is the Chief Policy Officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS,Tuberculosis,and Malaria and a Distinguished Senior Scholar at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.
Mark C. Storella a graduate of the Roxbury Latin School,Harvard College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,is Dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) as of May 28,2019. Storella was U.S. Ambassador to Zambia from 2010 to 2013.
Nazanin Ash is the chief executive officer of Welcome.US and has previously worked in the US State Department of state in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs leading the Middle East Partnership Initiative and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on international development and HIV/AIDS. Born to parents who left Iran,she is an advocate for American support for refugees,and was named in Washingtonian's list of the 500 most influential people in Washington,DC,in 2022.
