He and his wife, fellow Foreign Service officer Kirsten Selinger, have four children.ĭeputy Executive Director – Mark E. He speaks French, German, Croatian, Danish, and Russian with varying degrees of proficiency and holds a B.A. Army and worked as a locally employed political officer at the Canadian Consulate General in Minnesota. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Tom served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. In previous Washington assignments he has served as senior advisor at the Center for the Study of the Conduct of Diplomacy at the Foreign Service Institute, desk officer for Norway and Sweden, and Rusk Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. Tom’s other overseas assignments included tours in Denmark, Croatia, Albania, and Trinidad and Tobago, with portfolios covering issues ranging from Arctic policy and security cooperation to NATO integration and war crimes prosecutions. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan, where he led efforts to normalize bilateral relations with Central Asia’s teetering lone democracy. His most recent tour overseas was as chief of the Political and Economic Section at the U.S. In coordination with like-minded European governments, he and his team addressed such challenges as human rights abuses and democratic backsliding. She has served on the Boards of numerous organizations including the Diplomacy Center Foundation, DACOR and the Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association in Boston, Massachusetts.Įxecutive Director – Tom Selinger is a twenty-five-year veteran of the Foreign Service, most recently serving as director of the Office for European and Eurasian Affairs in the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. She is married to Ambassador Riaz M Khan, retired Pakistani diplomat and former Foreign Secretary of Pakistan. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies (SAIS). in History (Summa cum Laude) from Principia College and an M.A. Johnson worked in the private sector in the areas of strategic planning, international marketing and joint venture negotiation. Prior to entering the Foreign Service, Ms. Johnson was detailed to the American Academy of Diplomacy where she worked on the Academy’s report “American Diplomacy at Risk”, issued in 2015. Following her two terms as AFSA President, Ms. She was the first woman to be elected President of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) and served from 2009-2013. During her 35 years in the Foreign Service, she served in a broad range of bilateral and multilateral assignments in and out of the State Department including in Bosnia as Deputy High Representative and Supervisor of Brcko District, in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad as the Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, as Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’affaires in Romania and Mauritius, IESC Director for Central Asia based in Kazakhstan, as well as in Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, the United States Mission to the United Nations, and in the State Department, on the Hill and with the National Endowment for Democracy. She retired in 2015 and has served as the President of ADST since 2016. She leaves to cherish her loving memory, her parents, Gary and Jan Reames, of Three Rivers and several aunts, uncles and cousins, along with many friends and acquaintances.President – Susan Rockwell Johnson is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She also adored her cats, spending time with friends, going to movies, and traveling to Mackinaw Island. She was a member of the Corey Church of the Nazarene and Moose Lodge #474. She made many friends and acquaintances through work where she will be missed by all who knew her. Laura has recently been employed by Wal-Mart of Three Rivers where people were greeted daily and warmed by her infectious smile and bright personality. She furthered her education at Davenport College where she graduated with high honors in 1987 with an Associate’s degree in computers and accounting. Laura graduated from Three Rivers High School with the class of 1985. She was born in Three Rivers on Augthe daughter of Gary and Jan (Broker) Reames. Laura Lee Reames, age 52, of Three Rivers, Michigan passed away unexpectedly on November 3, 2019.

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