Teresita Currie Schaffer

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Teresita (Tezi) Currie Schaffer (born 1945), a 1966 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, entered the US Foreign Service in 1966 serving for 30 year and was Ambassador to Sri Lanka. [1] [2] She had a concurrent appointment as Ambassador to the Maldives (1992-1995) and was Director of the Foreign Service Institute from 1995 until 1997. [3]

Schaffer also served as Director of the Office of International Trade and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia (at that time, it was the senior South Asia policy position in the State Department). She is secretary of The Asia Foundation's board of trustees and a Senior Adviser to McLarty Associates, a Washington-based international strategic advisory firm. [4]

Besides Bryn Mawr, Schaffer attended Convents of the Sacred Heart in New York, Grenoble, France, and Noroton, Connecticut, and studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris before attending Bryn Mawr. Schaffer was on the board of editors of The Foreign Service Journal. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR TERESITA C. SCHAFFER" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 25 September 1998. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 July 2024. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Reading Room". Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin. Bryn Mawr College. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "Teresita Currie Schaffer (1945–)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Teresita C. Schaffer". The Asia Foundation. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Miss Currie and H. B. Schaffer, Foreign Service Officers, Wed". The New York Times. October 26, 1971. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
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