Republican Peoples Party CHP Dancing Card at White House. Kılıçdaroğlu came together with the national security adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, Karen Donfried and Director for Turkish Affairs Christina Bobrow.
Mavi Boncuk |
Mavi Boncuk |
former executive vice president of the (GMF), is the special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council (NSC).
Donfried first joined German Marshall Fund of the United States GMF in 2001, and was a central figure at the organization as it more than doubled in size. After a stint on the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning staff handling the Europe portfolio, Donfried returned to GMF in 2005, where she served as senior director for policy programs, and later as executive vice president from 2007-2010. She provided strategic direction to GMF’s programs and bolstered its continued work on U.S.-European relations.
Dr. Donfried completed a Ph.D. and MALD at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a Magister at the University of Munich in Germany, and a bachelor’s degree at Wesleyan University. She has written numerous articles on German foreign and defense policy, European integration, and transatlantic relations. Before joining GMF, she worked as a European affairs specialist in the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of the Congressional Research Service (CRS). Donfried joins the NSC after serving as the National Intelligence Office for Europe at the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC).
She has been featured in many European and American news programs and has written extensively in her areas of expertise that include German foreign and defense policy, European integration, and transatlantic relations, the European Union, and NATO.
Christina Bobrow Director for Turkish Affairs at National Security Staff
National Security Staff, Department of State Education : Georgetown University