The Foreign Service Journal, September 2019

58 SEPTEMBER 2019 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS JASON S I NGER U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT VICE PRESIDENT The son of a USAID Foreign Service officer, Jason Singer is a proud high school gradu- ate of the International School of Kenya with more than 20 years of professional interagency develop- ment experience, including 14 years as an FSO with USAID and earlier service with the U.S. Treasury Department and the National Security Council. He has led USAID teams in a variety of sectors including economic growth; anti-corruption and good governance; immunization and water, sanitation and hygiene; basic education; agribusiness; workforce develop- ment; disaster risk reduction; and women’s empowerment. Mr. Singer has tremendous respect for development professionals across all functional and technical areas, and appreciates the importance of intra- and interagency collabo- ration to strengthen the Foreign Service cadre. JAY CARRE I RO FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE VICE PRESIDENT Jay Carreiro is a career Foreign Service officer and an 18-year veteran of the Com- merce Department. He joined the Foreign Commercial Service in 2009, serving as special assistant to the deputy assistant secretary for interna- tional operations. Prior to his election to the AFSA Governing Board, he was the director for business liaison and special adviser to the U.S. executive director at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. He also served in Rio de Janeiro. Before joining Commerce, Mr. Carreiro served as a judicial law clerk in Trenton, N.J. He holds a bachelor’s degree in politi- cal science and public administration from Rhode Island Col- lege and a master’s degree in public administration and a law degree from Rutgers University. He is married with one child. MI CHAEL R I EDEL FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE VICE PRESIDENT Michael Riedel has served as an FSO with the Foreign Agricultural Service for 20 years, and realizes his long-time goal of serving as AFSA vice president for FAS. His overseas assignments have included New Delhi, Baghdad, Ho Chi Minh City, Beijing (as director of the embassy’s Office of Agricultural Affairs) and Lima (as agricultural counselor). Between Beijing and Lima, Mr. Riedel spent time in FAS/Washington as Asia division director of the FAS Office of Country and Regional Affairs and as Western Hemisphere area director in the Office of Foreign Service Operations. Before beginning his public service career, Mr. Riedel worked as an international trade analyst in a law firm’s Washington, D.C., offices. He received his bachelor’s degree in international and comparative politics fromWestern Michigan University and his master’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of Inter- national Affairs. Mr. Riedel is married with one daughter and heads home to Maine as often as he can. JOHN K . NALAND RETIREE VICE PRESIDENT John Naland’s 29-year Foreign Service career included service in Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico (as principal officer in Matamoros) and Iraq (as leader of the provincial reconstruction team in Basra). Washington assignments included the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, the White House Situation Room and the Bureau of Human Resources (as director of the Office of Retirement). Mr. Naland was AFSA State vice president from 1999 to 2001 and AFSA president from 2001 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2009. He retired from the Foreign Service in 2015. He is in his second term as AFSA Retiree VP. He is also president of the Foreign Service Youth Foundation and coordinator of the Foreign Affairs Retirees of Northern Virginia. Mr. Naland is co-author of the third edition of Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service (Georgetown University Press, 2017). A former U.S. Army cavalry officer who served in West Germany during the Cold War, he is a graduate of the Army War College. Born in Kansas, he grew up in New Orleans and graduated from Tulane University. He is married and has two daughters.