Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky is a foreign policy expert and former diplomat specializing in national security affairs. She is a Senior Fellow in the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University’s JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and is Vice Chair of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security (Atlantic Council). Over 25 years, she has held high-level government positions such as Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, the President’s Envoy to Northern Ireland (receiving the Secretary of State’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal for her contributions), Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council, the White House, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.

She was the first George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.  A former member of the Defense Policy Board, she is Chair of EXIM Bank’s Chairman’s Council on China Competition and is on the Advisory Board of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Ambassador Dobriansky received a B.S.F.S. summa cum laude from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.