Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky

Paula Dobriansky is former Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs.  She is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s JFK Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs and Senior International Affairs and Trade Advisor at Baker Hostetler.  From 2007-2008, Ambassador Dobriansky was the President's Special Envoy on Northern Ireland and received the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Medal for work on global issues and the Northern Ireland peace process.  Previous positions included Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council, and a member of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.  She has been awarded numerous international awards, including Poland's Highest Medal of Merit, Grand Cross of Commander of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, National Order "Star of Romania", Hungary’s Commander’s Cross Order of Merit and Ukraine’s Order of Merit.