The State Department’s top diplomat for international scientific affairs—including global warming, which the Trump administration denies—is Judith Garber, who in April 2014 was promoted from principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES), a job she had held since 2012.
The daughter of Evelyn Garber and Texaco accountant Seymour Garber, Judith (Judy) G. Garber was born circa 1961, and grew up in and around the New York City metropolitan area. She earned her B.S. in International Economics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1983. Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1984, Garber worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury.
Garber’s early State Department assignments included overseas postings as economic counselor in Madrid, Spain; deputy economic counselor in Tel Aviv, Israel; economic officer in Prague, Czech Republic; economic officer in Mexico City, Mexico; and vice consul in Seville, Spain. Garber’s Washington assignments have included director for overseas development finance in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, working with the multilateral development banks on Haiti reconstruction, tsunami relief, and Pakistan earthquake reconstruction.
Garber then moved laterally to the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she served as director of North Central European affairs, overseeing bilateral relations with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Slovenia.
Garber was promoted to deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in October 2007, where she oversaw bilateral relations with Nordic, Baltic, and Central European countries.
Garber served as ambassador to Latvia from August 2009 to July 2012, the first career diplomat to the small Baltic nation since Brian E. Carlson served in Riga from 2001 to 2004. Garber’s two immediate predecessors, Catherine Todd Bailey and Chuck. Larson, Jr., were non-career appointees who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the 2004 presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
Garber’s husband, Paul Wisgerhof, also served in the Foreign Service and was deputy director of the Office of Foreign Policy Trade Controls. She has a stepson, Douglas, a son, Ryan, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
-Matt Bewig
To Learn More:
State Department Cables 2004-2011 (WikiLeaks)
Ambassador to Latvia: Who Is Judith Garber? (by Matt Bewig, AllGov)
Officially In: Judith G. Garber to Riga (Diplopundit)
On August 28, 2014, the White House announced that President Barack Obama had nominated Jennifer Haverkamp, who has worked for environmental causes throughout her professional career, to head the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Haverkamp is from Indiana and went to The College of Wooster in Ohio, graduating with a B.A. in biology in 1979. She was then selected as a Rhodes Scholar and studied politics and philosophy at Somerville College at Britain’s Oxford University, earning an M.A. in 1981.
She returned to the United States and worked first as an associate for the Conservation Foundation, which is now part of the World Wildlife Fund. She remained there until 1984 when she began law school at Yale. She earned a J.D. in 1987 and then clerked for a year for federal Judge Betty Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Haverkamp returned to the cause of conservation as an attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, where she worked on revisions to the Clean Air Act. She moved over to the Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a special assistant to the assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance. The following year, Haverkamp was named deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for environment and natural resources and a director in the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office of North American Affairs and Office of Intellectual Property and Environment. She was responsible for the environmental parts of trade agreements, including one between the United States and Chile, another with Singapore and the environmental negotiations leading up to the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 1995, Haverkamp was named assistant U.S. trade representative for environment and natural resources.
She left federal service in 2003 to become a consultant for International Trade and Sustainability Services. She did some work for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and later came on board as a full-time employee of the organization as managing director for international policy. In 2011, Haverkamp was made director of EDF’s International Climate Program, remaining in that role until 2014, when she left to do consulting work and lecture in the law at George Washington University. She was also a visiting senior fellow at the Institute for Government and Sustainable Development.
Haverkamp has served on the board of trustees of The College of Wooster since 1988, on the board of directors of the American Bird Conservancy since 2006 and on the board of directors of the Verified Carbon Standard Association since 2012.
Haverkamp and her husband, attorney Jeffrey Kehne, have two children, Greg and Adrianne.
-Steve Straehley
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The State Department’s top diplomat for international scientific affairs—including global warming, which the Trump administration denies—is Judith Garber, who in April 2014 was promoted from principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES), a job she had held since 2012.
The daughter of Evelyn Garber and Texaco accountant Seymour Garber, Judith (Judy) G. Garber was born circa 1961, and grew up in and around the New York City metropolitan area. She earned her B.S. in International Economics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1983. Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1984, Garber worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve and the Department of the Treasury.
Garber’s early State Department assignments included overseas postings as economic counselor in Madrid, Spain; deputy economic counselor in Tel Aviv, Israel; economic officer in Prague, Czech Republic; economic officer in Mexico City, Mexico; and vice consul in Seville, Spain. Garber’s Washington assignments have included director for overseas development finance in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, working with the multilateral development banks on Haiti reconstruction, tsunami relief, and Pakistan earthquake reconstruction.
Garber then moved laterally to the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she served as director of North Central European affairs, overseeing bilateral relations with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Slovenia.
Garber was promoted to deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in October 2007, where she oversaw bilateral relations with Nordic, Baltic, and Central European countries.
Garber served as ambassador to Latvia from August 2009 to July 2012, the first career diplomat to the small Baltic nation since Brian E. Carlson served in Riga from 2001 to 2004. Garber’s two immediate predecessors, Catherine Todd Bailey and Chuck. Larson, Jr., were non-career appointees who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the 2004 presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
Garber’s husband, Paul Wisgerhof, also served in the Foreign Service and was deputy director of the Office of Foreign Policy Trade Controls. She has a stepson, Douglas, a son, Ryan, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
-Matt Bewig
To Learn More:
State Department Cables 2004-2011 (WikiLeaks)
Ambassador to Latvia: Who Is Judith Garber? (by Matt Bewig, AllGov)
Officially In: Judith G. Garber to Riga (Diplopundit)
On August 28, 2014, the White House announced that President Barack Obama had nominated Jennifer Haverkamp, who has worked for environmental causes throughout her professional career, to head the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
Haverkamp is from Indiana and went to The College of Wooster in Ohio, graduating with a B.A. in biology in 1979. She was then selected as a Rhodes Scholar and studied politics and philosophy at Somerville College at Britain’s Oxford University, earning an M.A. in 1981.
She returned to the United States and worked first as an associate for the Conservation Foundation, which is now part of the World Wildlife Fund. She remained there until 1984 when she began law school at Yale. She earned a J.D. in 1987 and then clerked for a year for federal Judge Betty Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Haverkamp returned to the cause of conservation as an attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, where she worked on revisions to the Clean Air Act. She moved over to the Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 as a special assistant to the assistant administrator for enforcement and compliance. The following year, Haverkamp was named deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for environment and natural resources and a director in the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office of North American Affairs and Office of Intellectual Property and Environment. She was responsible for the environmental parts of trade agreements, including one between the United States and Chile, another with Singapore and the environmental negotiations leading up to the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 1995, Haverkamp was named assistant U.S. trade representative for environment and natural resources.
She left federal service in 2003 to become a consultant for International Trade and Sustainability Services. She did some work for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and later came on board as a full-time employee of the organization as managing director for international policy. In 2011, Haverkamp was made director of EDF’s International Climate Program, remaining in that role until 2014, when she left to do consulting work and lecture in the law at George Washington University. She was also a visiting senior fellow at the Institute for Government and Sustainable Development.
Haverkamp has served on the board of trustees of The College of Wooster since 1988, on the board of directors of the American Bird Conservancy since 2006 and on the board of directors of the Verified Carbon Standard Association since 2012.
Haverkamp and her husband, attorney Jeffrey Kehne, have two children, Greg and Adrianne.
-Steve Straehley
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