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February 27, 2024

GWIA Ambassador Dinner with Ambassador (ret.) Barbara Bodine

The inaugural GWIA Ambassador Dinner Series featured our first host, Ambassador (ret.) Barbara Bodine. This series brings together small groups of current students, alumni, and career diplomats, providing a space for women in the Georgetown community to explore careers in foreign service and international affairs through shared meals and insightful discussions.

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Ambassador Bodine is a Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy and concurrent Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. Before joining Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, she taught and directed policy task forces and policy workshops on US diplomacy in the Persian Gulf region.

As Ambassador to the Republic of Yemen from 1997-2001, she saw enhanced support for democratization and increased security and counterterrorism cooperation. Ambassador Bodine also served in Baghdad as Deputy Principal Officer during the Iran-Iraq War, in Kuwait as Deputy Chief of Mission during the Iraqi invasion and occupation of 1990-1991, and again, seconded to the Department of Defense in Iraq in 2003 as the senior State Department official and the first coalition coordinator for reconstruction in Baghdad and the central governorates. More information about the Ambassador can be found here.

GWIA Ambassador Dinner with Ambassador (ret.) Barbara Bodine

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