The Foreign Service Journal, September 2015

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2015 75 AFSA NEWS Meet the 2015-2017 Governing Board The American Foreign Service Association is proud to intro- duce the elected officers and representatives of the 2015-2017 Governing Board who will be hard at work on behalf of AFSA members over the next two years. AFSAGoverning Board meetings take place on the first Wednesday of every month from noon to 2 p.m. at AFSA head- quarters (2101 E Street NW,Washington, D.C.). Regular members may attend any board meeting and/or request copies of board meeting minutes fromPatrick Bradley at bradley@afsa.org . AMBASSADOR BARBARA STEPHENSON PRESIDENT Ambassador Barbara Stephenson is a 30-year veteran of the Foreign Service, most recently serving as dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute. She received the Department of State’s Distinguished Honor Award for her service as deputy senior adviser to the Secretary of State and deputy coordinator for Iraq and has also served as ambas- sador to Panama, as consul general and chief of mission in Curaçao, as consul general in Belfast, as director for plan- ning in the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization and as the first woman deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires at Embassy London. She holds a Ph.D. in English literature and has two children. WI L L I AM HAUGH SECRETARY William Haugh retired from the Senior For- eign Service in April 2015. During a 35-year career, his assignments included service as dean of the School of Language Studies at the Foreign Service Institute; director of the Office of Management Policy, Rightsiz- ing and Innovation; foreign policy adviser to the chief of staff of the Army; and executive director of the Bureaus of Near Eastern Affairs and South and Central Asian Affairs. He gradu- ated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, received a master’s degree from Harvard and lives with his wife and two daughters in Fairfax, Virginia. AMBASSADOR CHARL ES A . FORD TREASURER Ambassador (ret.) Charles Ford joined the Foreign Commercial Service in 1982 and retired in 2009. His assignments included serving as assistant secretary for the Com- merce Department; acting director general and acting assistant secretary for the United States and Foreign Commercial Service; and director of Latin American trade policy in the International Trade Administration. His overseas postings were concentrated in Europe and Latin America. From 2005 to 2008 he served as U.S. ambassador to Honduras. Ford earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of William and Mary and a master’s degree from The George Washington University. ANG I E BRYAN STATE VICE PRESIDENT Angie Bryan joined the Foreign Service in 1992, shortly after graduating from Trinity University in San Antonio with bachelor’s degrees in international studies and politi- cal science. She served overseas as deputy principal officer in Lahore; acting principal officer in Peshawar, Strasbourg and Marseille; refugee coor- dinator in Islamabad; political-economic counselor in Stock- holm; principal officer at the American Presence Post in Lyon; and deputy chief of mission in Yemen. In Washington, she has served as staff assistant to the assistant secretary for South Asian affairs and as an assessor with the Board of Examiners. She was awarded the Sinclaire Language Award for Urdu in 2000. SHARON WAYNE USAID VICE PRESIDENT Sharon Wayne is an active-duty USAID For- eign Service officer. She has served as an assignments and performance counselor, office director for American Schools and Hospitals Abroad, and as a regional super- visory contracting officer in Santo Domingo. Prior to entering the Foreign Service, she was a contracting officer with the Peace Corps. Wayne has two teenage children and resides in Annapolis, Maryland.