Tatiana C. Gfoeller

Tatiana C. Gfoeller (née Volkoff; born 1960) is a veteran United States diplomat. 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 and speaks Russian, French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, and Arabic.[2] 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.[3] [2] 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.

Tatiana C. Gfoeller

Her husband is Ambassador Michael Gfoeller. They have one son, Cpt. Emmanuel Gfoeller, an Army Ranger.[4]

References
  1. "Tatiana C. Gfoeller | BIOGRAPHY". state.gov. Department of State. 23 October 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  2. Archived November 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Tatiana C. Gfoeller-Volkoff (1960-)". Office of the Historian, United States Department of State. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  4. "From Moscow to Riyadh and Washington, Understanding Oil Market Turmoil". Gulf International Forum. Retrieved 2021-05-11.

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