The Foreign Service Journal, September 2019

62 SEPTEMBER 2019 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL AFSA NEWS The New FSJ Editorial Board Members The Foreign Service Journal has eight new members for the 2019-2021 Editorial Board term. Each comes with a unique background and special talents and motivations for joining the Editorial Board. One member said he wants to “commit myself to work actively with other board members to reinforce the Journal ’s century-long mission of advocacy for American diplomacy and its practitioners around the world.”Another said “I specifically am interested in the Editorial Board role as I see it helping to shape the dialogue in the community, at a time when our established ideas are being challenged.” Yet another new board member wrote: “Over the past sev- eral years, I have seen AFSA’s leadership become increasingly indispensable. The FSJ can and should be the leading advo- cate—whether it’s on Foreign Service work and life issues over- seas, the unique role that specialists play and how those should adapt for the future, ways to highlight Civil Service careers, or the importance of recruiting and training the next generation.” Welcome to our new Editorial Board members, and thank you also to our continuing Editorial Board members: Alexis Ludwig (chair), Harry Kopp and Dinah Zeltser-Winant! Robert M. Beecroft retired from the Foreign Service in 2006 with the rank of Minister Counselor. After retiring, he led State Department Office of Inspector General inspections of U.S. diplomatic operations in Kuwait, Syria, Taiwan, Vietnam, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and four regional and functional bureaus in Washington, D.C. From 2004 to 2006, he was a professor of national security strategy at the National War College. From 2001 to 2004, he served as ambassador and head of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Peacekeeping Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Earlier, he served in Bosnia as the special envoy for the Bosnian Federation and chargé d’affaires at Embassy Sarajevo. Between 1971 and 1996, he served in Washington, D.C. and overseas in Geneva, Brussels, Paris, Bonn, Cairo, Ouagadougou and Amman, the latter two as deputy chief of mission. Daniel Crocker is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. Prior to serving as AFSA’s Foreign Commercial Service vice president for the 2017-2019 Governing Board, he was the commercial counselor in Madrid, promoting U.S. commercial interests in Spain. Mr. Crocker was the first director for the newly created FCS Office of Digital Initiatives. He was also Commerce’s first executive director for Western Hemi- sphere operations. Mr. Crocker’s earlier foreign assignments were in Panama, Mexico, Brazil and the Dominican Republic. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Crocker worked in the private sector with Schlumberger, Amsted Rail, Webvan, HomeWarehouse.com and as an MIT consultant for Hewlett- Packard. He has a bachelor’s of science degree in engineering from Princeton University, a master’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a master’s and MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Crocker is married with two children and has raced bicycles competi- tively throughout Latin America, the United States and France. Joel Ehrendreich joined the State Department in 1994. He currently serves as foreign policy adviser (POLAD) to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Mr. Ehrendreich’s prior assignments were mostly in the Indo-Pacific region and West Africa. Raised in Wisconsin, he graduated from Drake University. Prior to joining State, Mr. Ehrendreich worked for the Peace Corps, wrote for local/specialty publica- tions and taught adult rehabilitation at Goodwill Industries. Mr. Ehrendreich’s hobbies include watching baseball, playing baseball and talking about baseball, and his prized possession is a baseball signed by the Dalai Lama. He received the William R. Rivkin Award for Constructive Dissent in 2011. Mr. Ehrendreich is married to FSO Rachel Ehrendreich, and they have two grown children. Jess McTigue is serving as a Pearson Fellow on Capitol Hill. She has been a special agent with Diplomatic Security since 2005, with assignments in Iraq, Yemen, Chad, New York and Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the State Department, she worked as an intelligence analyst in the private sector. Ms. McTigue has a bachelor’s degree in international studies from DePaul University in Chicago. Upon her departure from Chad, the country’s president made her a Knight of the National Order of Chad; she is the first and only embassy official, other than the ambassador, to receive this award.