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Barbara Bodine is the former US Ambassador to Yemen, 1997-2001, and is
currently the Wilhelm Fellow at MIT's Center for International Studies (CIS).
Ambassador Bodine, a former career member of the Senior Foreign
Service, spent much of her 30-year diplomatic career in the Middle East and the
Arabian Peninsula. In 2003, she served as coordinator for post-conflict
reconstruction for Baghdad and the central governorates of Iraq. From 1997-2001,
a period that included the terrorist attack on the USS Cole, she was the U.S.
Ambassador to Yemen. Prior to that appointment, Ambassador Bodine served as
Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq War and, in 1990, as
Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion and occupation. She
received the Secretary of State's Award for Valor for her work in occupied
Kuwait.
In addition to a number of assignments in the State
Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Ambassador Bodine was the
Department's Associate Coordinator for Operations. She also served as acting
overall Coordinator for Counterterrorism, Dean of the School of Professional
Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, Director of East African Affairs and
Senior Advisor for International Security Negotiations in the Bureau of
Political-Military Affairs. In addition to the Award for Valor, her awards at
the Department of State included the Secretary's Career Achievement Award and
the Distinguished Service Award.
Ambassador Bodine, formerly a Senior Fellow at Harvard's
Kennedy School of Government and Director of its Governance Initiative in the
Middle East, is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara (magna
cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in Political Science and Asian Studies) and The
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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