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A Conversation about a Career in the US Foreign Service

May 2, 2022 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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Vaida Vidugiris - U.S. Diplomat & Hunter College Alumna, Class of 2004
A Conversation about a Career in the US Foreign Service

Moderated by Prof. Cynthia Roberts

Vaida Vidugiris joined the State Department in 2004, becoming a Foreign Service Officer in 2007. She has worked abroad in Colombia as a Narcotics Affairs Section Officer (2007-2009), in Greece as a Human Rights Officer (2010-2012), in Afghanistan as an External Unit Officer (2013-2014), and as the Political and Economic Section Chief
in Istanbul (2018-2021).

In Washington, D.C., Vaida served as a staff assistant in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (2006), as the NATO Operations Officer for Afghanistan (2012-2013), as the Political-Military Officer on the Ukraine Desk (2014-2015), and as the Senior Political Officer on the Mexico Desk (2015-2017).

She is currently the Davis Fellow at Columbia University. Vaida is a former Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and speaks Lithuanian, Russian, Greek, Turkish, and a couple of Romance languages. She has a B.A. in Political Science/Spanish/Thomas Hunter Honors from Hunter College, CUNY, and an M.A. in Security Policy Studies from the George Washington University.

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