Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, new states that had gained sovereignty experienced an alarming dearth of personnel with sufficient expertise to guide their countries through this transition and…
Throughout transitions across the world and between the public and private sectors, problem solving has been a common thread in MSFS alumna Bailey Hand’s career trajectory. After graduating from Georgetown…
Philip Verveer has seen it all. The career Justice Department attorney, Federal Communications Commission counsel, senior State Department official, and private lawyer made his name in the world of international…
Map showing the constituent republics of the Soviet Union. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons The early 1990s were a time of immense shifts in the landscape of international affairs. In…
Diego Cortes Asencio (SFS'52) had a long and illustrious State Department career. While serving as the United States Ambassador to Colombia, he was taken hostage for 61 days by revolutionary…
Joseph Santoiana, born in 1911, graduated from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service in 1931. Santoiana joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940, where he would work for 33 years,…
Sultan Mahmoud Amerie’s yearbook photo, 1924 Ye Domesday Booke. Sultan Mahmoud Amerie, of modern-day Iran, was the first international student to receive a scholarship from the School of Foreign Service.
