Barbara K. Bodine (born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a career member of the Foreign Service of the United States Department of State.
Bodine earned her B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Depart...
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Barbara K. Bodine (born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a career member of the Foreign Service of the United States Department of State.
Bodine earned her B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her Master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She also studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Department of State's Language Training Field Schools in Taiwan and Tunisia. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and serves on the Board of Directors of the UCSB Alumni Association and on the Advisory Council to the Program on Southwest Asian and Islamic Civilization Studies at the Fletcher School. She was the recipient of the UC Santa Barbara Distinguished Alumni Award in 1991.
After initial tours in Hong Kong and Bangkok, Bodine spent her career working primarily on Southwest Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. She has twice served in the Bureau of Near...
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