Tatiana C. Gfoeller

Tatiana C. Gfoeller (born 1960) is a veteran United States diplomat. Since joining the Department of State in 1984, her foreign postings have included: Poland, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the Soviet Union, Belgium, Russia, and Turkmenistan. Gfoeller has served as a Deputy Chief of Mission in Turkmenistan, Deputy Principal Officer in Russia, and Consul General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She was awarded the Rusk Fellowship in 2000. Additionally, Gfoeller authored a book on U.S. foreign policy interests in the Caspian Basin and has taught master's degree classes in political science at Georgetown University.[1] She is a member of numerous foreign affairs organizations, including the Council on Foreign Relations and speaks Russian, French, Polish, Italian, Spanish, and Arabic.[2] From 2011 to 2017, Gfoeller was a political adviser to the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. From 2008 to 2011, she served as Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic.[3] [2] Her father was the French writer of Russian extraction Vladimir Volkoff. Gfoeller served as President of American Women for International Understanding , an international women's rights NGO, from 2020 to 2022 and is now on its Board of Directors. Since 2022, Ambassador Gfoeller has been serving as the Global Ambassador-at-Large of the ACE Health Foundation (ACE), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in 2016 committed to bridging, collaborating, and levelling up entrepreneurs & leaders.[4]

Ambassador Gfoeller published her first novel,  “A Simple Love,” in 2021.  She is presently at work on a second novel.[5][6]

Her husband is Ambassador Michael Gfoeller. They have one son, Major Emmanuel Gfoeller, an Army Ranger.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Tatiana C. Gfoeller | BIOGRAPHY". state.gov. Department of State. 23 October 2008. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
  2. 1 2 Archived November 29, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ "Tatiana C. Gfoeller-Volkoff (1960-)". Office of the Historian, United States Department of State. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  4. ↑ "Ambassdor Tatiana Gfoeller-Volkoff | ACE Health Foundation. Greater Washington, DC". www.acehealthfoundation.org. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  5. ↑ Baker, Norman (2020-09-08). ... And What Do You Do?: What The Royal Family Don't Want You To Know. Biteback Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78590-538-4.
  6. ↑ "Autopsy on an Empire | Jack F. Matlock, Jr". 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2023-12-04.
  7. ↑ "From Moscow to Riyadh and Washington, Understanding Oil Market Turmoil". Gulf International Forum. Retrieved 2021-05-11.

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