The Foreign Service Journal, September 2018

Foreign Service Association (AFSA/FS Books, 2015). He has written for The New York Times and is a frequent contributor to The Foreign Service Journal. He won the 2012 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review . Harry is a graduate of Hamilton College and Yale University. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, Jane. Alexis Ludwig , an Editorial Board member for the past year, has assumed the role of chair of the board. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service from California, Alexis joined State in 1994 as part of the 70th A-100 class. His first tour was as vice consul in Guatemala City. He then served as political-military officer in Tokyo, Indo- nesia desk officer in the State Department and human rights officer in Kuala Lumpur. His career has focused largely on Latin America, with tours as deputy economic-political counselor in La Paz and political counselor in Lima, Buenos Aires and Brasilia. Alexis returned to Washington in 2016 to serve as a career development officer in senior level, where his responsibilities included sup- porting the DCM/PO and D Committees. He begins his next assignment as deputy permanent representative at the U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States this summer. Before the Foreign Service, Alexis worked as a freelance writer and translator. He has a master’s degree in East Asian studies from the University of Washington and a bachelor’s degree in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Alexis is married to Guatemala native Carolina Linares. His sons, Sebastian and Santiago, are competitive swimmers who attend Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland. Karen Brown Cleveland , a newly selected member of AFSA’s Governing Board, has been elected as the Governing Board’s liaison to the Editorial Board. You can find her biography on p. 68. The Journal staff would like to thank outgoing board mem- bers Eric Green and Lawrence Casselle for their service. Eric is heading toWarsaw as deputy chief of mission, while Lawrence is heading to Baghdad. n 70 SEPTEMBER 2018 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS The Journal Welcomes New Editorial Board Members Several Foreign Service Journal Editorial Board members trans- ferred to posts overseas this past summer, so we’ve welcomed new members to the team. These members were approved during the last round of Editorial Board candidate selection. Alfred “Fred” Boll has been a Foreign Service officer since 2003, when he joined the 115th A-100 class as a political officer. He is currently posted to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs as Educa- tionUSA branch chief, where he leads the department’s global network of educa- tional advising centers that promotes U.S. higher education in 180 countries and territories. Fred has served in Lisbon, Amsterdam, Pristina and Rio de Janeiro, and as deputy director in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration’s Office of International Migration in Washington. He has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, J.D. and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin, and a doctorate in international law from the Uni- versity of Sydney. Before joining the Foreign Service, he taught international law and was a delegate and legal adviser for the International Committee of the Red Cross for 10 years, based in Jakarta, Hong Kong and Sydney. Fred is the author of various articles on international human- itarian law and nationality in international law, including a study of law and practice related to multiple nationality in 75 coun- tries, “Multiple Nationality and International Law,” published by Martinus Nijhoff-Brill in 2007. Harry Kopp spent 18 years in the Foreign Service, from 1967 to 1985. His assign- ments included economic counselor in Warsaw, deputy assistant secretary of State for international trade policy and deputy chief of mission in Brasilia. After leaving government service, Harry worked as a consultant and lobbyist, first as a founding partner of L.A. Motley and Company, then as a sole practitioner. Among his many clients were Anheuser-Busch International, the National Cotton Council, the Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association and the Sugar Alliance of the Philippines. Harry is the author of three books: Commercial Diplomacy (Academy of Diplomacy, 2004); Career Diplomacy (with co- author Charles Gillespie, Georgetown University Press, 2008) and the updated 2017 edition (with co-author John Naland); and Voice of the Foreign Service: A History of the American