The Foreign Service Journal, September 2013

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2013 71 AFSA NEWS DAVID ZWACH, STATE REPRESENTATIVE David Zwach has been a Security Engineering O cer since 1987. Now an operations chief in the Technical Security and Countermea- sures Branch of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, he previously served as chief of the Information Assurance Branch at the Diplomatic Security Training Center. Dave also served as the o cer-in-charge at the Engineering Services Center in Abu Dhabi, and the branch chief for the Field Support Branch and Quality and Liaison Branch. Oversea, Dave served in New Delhi, Frankfurt and Abu Dhabi and has travelled on TDY to more than 50 countries. Dave served on the 2011-13 AFSA Governing Board and was an AFSA post rep in Frankfurt and Abu Dhabi. He was AFSA’s 2010 winner of the F. Allen “Tex” Harris Award for his work to create tenure certificates for all tenured FS specialists. ANDREW LEVIN, USAID REPRESENTATIVE Andrew Levin has been an AFSA member since he joined USAID in 2001. He has served in Nigeria, Mozambique and Zambia. He leads efforts to promote adoption of promising agriculture technologies through the Feed the Future Initiative in USAID’s Bureau for Food Security. His international experience began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras. He has worked for an NGO implementing develop- ment programs in Russia, Ukraine and Moldova. Prior to join- ing USAID, he was in USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, and was a union steward and vice-president in the civil service. JASON SINGER, USAID REPRESENTATIVE Jason Singer started his USAID “career” in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) in the 6th grade when his father, a USAID Foreign Service o cer, was posted to Kinshasa. Jason joined USAID in 2003, serv- ing in Jakarta from 2005 to 2009 and later in USAID/Wash- ington’s Budget and Resource Management o ce. Currently on detail to the U.S. Executive Director’s O ce of the World Bank, prior to joining the Foreign Service, Jason held posi- tions with the U.S. Treasury Department, the National Security Council staff, the African Development Bank in Tunis, DAI, Inc. and Price Waterhouse.   BARBARA FARRAR, FCS REPRESENTATIVE Barbara Farrar (formerly Lapini) is currently serving as a Commercial O cer in the U.S. Export Assistance Center in Baltimore. She recently returned from an overseas assignment as senior commercial o cer in Bulgaria. Barbara joined the U.S. Commercial Service in 1996 and served as head of the o ce in Florence, Italy. She has also worked for the deputy undersecretary of Commerce for international trade and at the Trade Information Center. Barbara holds degrees from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Middlebury College. VACANT FAS REPRESENTATIVE ANDRÉ DE NESNERA, IBB REPRESENTATIVE André de Nesnera is the International Broad- casting Bureau representative on the AFSA Governing Board. He has been with the Voice of America for more than 30 years. A former VOA news director, he is currently a senior analyst at VOA’s Washington headquarters. He opened VOA’s Geneva o ce in 1984 and in 1989 was its first VOA correspon- dent permanently accredited in the Soviet Union. He also served as senior European correspondent, based in London. In 2002 he received the F. Allen “Tex” Harris award for construc- tive dissent. VACANT APHIS REPRESENTATIVE MARSHALL ADAIR, RETIREE REPRESENTATIVE Marshall Adair retired from the Foreign Service in 2007 after serving 35 years in Europe, Africa and Asia, mostly in and around China.  In Washington, he worked first in EB and later in EUR, where he was deputy assistant secretary under Richard Holbrooke. He also held political Adviser positions in Bosnia and with the Special Operations Command; and was AFSA President from 1999-2001. In 2012, he published a memoir, Watching Flowers From Horseback .