The Foreign Service Journal, September 2021

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | SEPTEMBER 2021 59 AFSA NEWS National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1991, Mr. Yazdgerdi worked on Capitol Hill. He has a bachelor’s degree in history from Cornell University and a master’s degree in Central European history, security studies and American diplomatic history from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. JASON SINGER U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT VICE PRESIDENT The son of a USAID Foreign Service offi- cer, Jason Singer is a proud high school graduate of the International School of Kenya (Go Lions!) with more than 20 years of professional interagency development experience, including 16 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 edu- cation; agribusiness; workforce development; disaster risk reduction; and women’s empowerment. Mr. Singer has tremendous respect for development professionals across all functional and technical areas. He appreciates the importance of intra- and interagency col- laboration to strengthen the Foreign Service cadre. He joined the AFSA Governing Board as USAID VP in 2019. JAY CARREIRO FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE VICE PRESIDENT Jay Carreiro is a career Foreign Service officer and a 20-year veteran of the Commerce Department. He joined the Commercial Service in 2009, serving as special assistant to the deputy assistant secretary for international operations. Prior to his election to the AFSA Governing Board in 2019, 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 the Commerce Department, Mr. Carreiro served as a judicial law clerk in Trenton, New Jersey. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and public admin- istration from Rhode Island College, and a Master of Public Administration and Juris Doctor from Rutgers University. He is married with one child and currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia. 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 reconstruc- tion 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 served two terms as AFSA president (2001-2003, 2007-2009). He retired from the Foreign Service in 2015 and is in his third 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 fourth edition of Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the U.S. Foreign Service (George- town University Press, forthcoming fall 2021). 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. JOSHUA ARCHIBALD STATE REPRESENTATIVE FSO Joshua Archibald is the acting director of the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation’s Office of Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism. He previously served as deputy and direc- tor of the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs’ Economic Policy and Public Diplomacy office, and from 2016 to 2019 was deputy director of the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement office in San Salvador. Prior to El Salvador, Mr. Archibald was a special assistant for the under secretary for economic growth, energy, and the environment; the State Department’s lead officer on the Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States; and manager of the internal unit in the political-military office of Embassy Baghdad. Other diplomatic assignments include Laos, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Italy. Born and raised in the Bay Area, Mr. Archibald earned a BA in international economics and German from the University of California, Davis, and an MA from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is married (as part of a “tandem”) with three children. He was first elected to the AFSA Governing Board in 2019.