San Diego Diplomacy Council Talk-About
Join us at our next Talk-About Event with Ambassador Barbara Stephenson, President of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA)! She will discuss the role of the nation’s diplomats as the most cost-effective tool in our national security toolkit. Barbara Stephenson was elected President of AFSA in 2015 and re-elected in 2017. Her remarkable Foreign Service career includes service as Ambassador to Panama, Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge’ d’affaires (acting Ambassador) for the U.S. Mission to the United Kingdom, and Consul General in Northern Ireland. As Deputy Senior Adviser to the Secretary and Deputy Coordinator for Iraq (2006-2008), she won the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award for developing and implementing the “civilian surge” that helped improve governance and reduce violence in Iraq’s provinces.