The Foreign Service Journal, January-February 2023

90 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL he, his wife, and both his parents had served as volunteers. n JimWojtasiewicz, 70, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on Aug. 7, 2022, in Sterling, Va. Mr. Wojtasiewicz joined the Foreign Service in 1983 and was posted as the political and consular officer in Khartoum. He then served as economic officer in Malaysia, deputy chief of mission and chargé in Brunei, deputy economic coun- selor in Poland, and political-economic counselor in Côte d’Ivoire. In Washington, D.C., his assignments included serving as the senior France desk officer, desk officer for Poland, deputy director for NATO, public affairs officer for the under secretary for eco- nomic affairs, and senior adviser for the Millennium Challenge account in the Bureau of Economic Affairs. Retiring in 2007, Mr. Wojtasiewicz then worked for two years as the program manager for counterterrorist finance in the State Department’s Bureau of Coun- terterrorism, as a contractor. In 2018 he graduated fromWilliam and Mary Law School, becoming a lawyer at age 67. He practiced law for the New York Law Firm, at their Virginia branch. He had also received an M.A. in eco- nomics at Stanford University, an M.A. in international affairs at Columbia Univer- sity, and a B.A. at Stony Brook University. Mr. Wojtasiewicz received many Meritorious Honor awards at State and the Order of Merit-Knight’s Cross from the Republic of Poland for his work on NATO accession. He spoke Polish fluently and knew French, Russian, and German. He was an avid reader, loved baseball, and enjoyed travel. Mr. Wojtasiewicz is survived by his wife of 47 years, Renata, and their two daughters, Anna and Teresa. n If you would like us to include an obituary in In Memory, please send text to journal@afsa.org. Be sure to include the date, place and cause of death, as well as details of the individual’s Foreign Service career. Please place the name of the AFSA member to be memorialized in the subject line of your email.