BARBARA BODINE a career member of the Senior Foreign Service
who served as Ambassador to Yemen (1997-2001),
a period in US-Yemini relations that included the terrorist
attack on the USS Cole in 2000, enhanced security cooperation
and democratization. Ambassador Bodine spent her
30-year diplomatic life primarily in the Middle East
and the Arabian Peninsula, including tours as
Deputy Principal Officer in Baghdad (1980-1983)
and Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait
during the Iraqi invasion and occupation in 1990.
In addition to a number of assignments in the
State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs,
Ms. Bodine from 1991 through 1994 was the
Associate Coordinator for Operations and
subsequently acting overall Coordinator for
Counterterrorism a the Department of State,
Dean of the School of Professional Studies at the
Foreign Service Institute of East African Affairs.
In 2003 Ambassador Bodine was appointed
Coordinator for Post-Conflict Reconstruction for
Baghdad and the Central Regions of Iraq. Most recently,
she served as Senior Advisor for
International Security Negotiations in the Bureau of
Political-Military Affairs at the Department of State.