AVIS BOHLEN

Former Assistant Secretary of State,
United States

Ambassador Avis T. Bohlen is currently member of the Board of Directors of the International Ressearch and Exchange Board IREX in Washington, DC. In 2003 she was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

Until her retirement from the State Department in May 2002, she was Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control. A career Foreign Service officer, she also served as US Ambassador to Bulgaria, Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Paris, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian affairs for European security issues. She previously served as Director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs, Executive Director of the US Delegation to the US-Soviet Nuclear and Space Arms Talks in Geneva, Deputy Political Counselor at the US Embassy in Paris, and Chief of the Strategic Affairs and Arms Control Section in the Office of NATO Affairs.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Ms. Bohlen worked for the US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and was a member of the US Delegation to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions talks in Vienna. Ms. Bohlen holds a BA from Radcliffe College and an MA from Columbia University.

She received the President's Distinguished Service Award in 1991. Married.