The Foreign Service Journal, December 2018

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | DECEMBER 2018 11 the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, to modernize America’s role in development finance. This will expand our ability to partner with international development finance institutions to achieve real, positive economic development in the countries that need it most. I am eager to work with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, USAID Administra- tor Mark Green and Overseas Private Investment Corporation President Ray Washburne to ensure that the new agency supports a global strategy that advances American interests and values. I am hopeful that the Congress will partner with the administration this coming year to pass the Global Fragility and Violence Reduction Act. This bill would require USAID and the depart- ments of State and Defense to collabo- rate on making strategic, long-term investments to promote sustainable development in fragile states that are critical to our own security. Finally, I have been working with Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) to co- We will not be successful in meeting our challenges on the world stage unless Foreign Service officers and Civil Service members at the State Department play the central leadership role in informing and crafting our country’s foreign policy.