Tatiana Gfoeller
 Tatiana Gfoeller    (diplomat) | |
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| Born | 1960 |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University, University of Florence. |
| Spouse | Michael Gfoeller |
US diplomat with an awareness of U.S. foreign policy interests in the Caspian Basin and Central Asia
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Tatiana C. Gfoeller is a veteran United States diplomat.
Career
Since joining the Department of State in 1984, her foreign postings have included: Poland, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the Soviet Union, Belgium, Russia, and Turkmenistan. Gfoeller has served as a Deputy Chief of Mission in Turkmenistan, Deputy Principal Officer in Russia, and Consul General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She was awarded the Rusk Fellowship in 2000. Additionally, Gfoeller authored a book on U.S. foreign policy interests in the Caspian Basin and has taught master's degree classes in political science at Georgetown University.[1] She is a member of numerous foreign affairs organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations. She speaks Russian, French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, and Arabic.
From 2011 to 2017, Gfoeller was a political adviser to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. From October 22, 2008, to March 8, 2011, she served as Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic.[2][3] Her father was the French writer of Russian extraction Vladimir Volkoff.
Since January 2020, Gfoeller has been the President of AWIU (American Women for International Understanding), a global women's rights NGO.
