The Foreign Service Journal, September 2013

68 SEPTEMBER 2013 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS On July 15, AFSA’s Governing Board for the 2013 to 2015 term took o ce. We are proud to introduce the o cers and representatives who will be hard at work on your behalf. Board meetings take place on the first Wednesday of every month from noon to 2 p.m. at AFSA headquarters, 2101 E St., NW, Washington, D.C. Meetings are open to any regular member. ROBERT J. SILVERMAN, PRESIDENT Bob is a Senior Foreign Service o cer with 24 years’ experience. Overseas, he has been DCM in Stockholm; political counselor in Tel Aviv; economic counselor in Riyadh and Baku; deputy economic counselor in Ankara; politi- cal o cer in Cairo and Jerusalem; and a Provincial Recon- struction Team leader in Tikrit. In Washington, Bob served as the director of State’s Iraq Reconstruction and Economic Affairs O ce, and as a senior adviser on global and functional affairs in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs. He graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Public Administration, and a J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He practiced corporate law at the Los Angeles firm of Troy & Gould for three years before joining the Foreign Service. Bob and his spouse, Young-Mi, have three grown children. ANGELA DICKEY, SECRETARY Angela Dickey joined the Foreign Service in 1988. She was the deputy chief of mission in Vientiane until she became an interagency professional in residence at the U.S. Institute of Peace in October 2012. Dickey is an expert on Southeast Asia politics and history. In addition to being twice posted to Laos, she has served in Vietnam, Yemen, Mauritania and Canada. Domestically she has served as o ce director for Maritime Southeast Asia; director for Indonesia and East Timor; deputy director for Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore; desk o cer for Philippines; and desk o cer for Iraq. Dickey earned a bachelor’s degree from Berry College, a Master of Science from Georgetown University and a Master of arts in journalism from the University of Maryland. AMBASSADOR CHARLES A. FORD, TREASURER Amb. Charles A. Ford (retired) served in Western Europe and Latin America with the Foreign Commercial Service. He was com- mercial minister in London and in Brussels at the U.S. Mission to the European Union. From 2005-2008 he was ambassador to Honduras, and later served as adviser to the Combatant Commander, U.S. Southern Com- mand. His last assignment was acting assistant secretary/ director general of the Foreign Commercial Service. An AFSA member since 1982, he previously served on the 2003-2005 Governing Board as FCS VP. MATTHEW ASADA, STATE VICE PRESIDENT Matthew Asada is a fourth-generation Japa- nese-American and third-generation public servant from Detroit. He has served overseas in border posts in South Asia (Kolkata, Kun- duz, Lahore) and Europe (Munich). Domesti- cally, he was a staffer for Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Marc Grossman as they sought a political settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan. As an APSA congressional fellow with Congressman Gary Peters, D-Mich., Matthew worked to facilitate greater trade and travel through the Detroit-Windsor corridor. He graduated from the London School of Economics and the University of Pennsylvania, and speaks fluent German. SHARON WAYNE, USAID VICE PRESIDENT Sharon has spent most of her career as a con- tracting o cer, ensuring the effective and fair obtainment of her colleague’s programmatic needs. She has also served as director of the O ce of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad and as an assignments and performance counselor in USAID’s Bureau of Human Resources. Her past experience will easily transfer to supporting the needs of her fellow FSOs in AFSA. Before joining the Foreign Service, she served with the Peace Corps. A University of Maryland graduate, Sharon lives in Annapolis, Md., with her teenage children, Angela and Jesse. 2013-2015 AFSA Governing Board Assumes Office