Jeffrey A. Bader (born 1945) was the senior director for Asian affairs on the

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in the

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and a former

United States Ambassador to Namibia The United States ambassador to Namibia is the representative of the government of the United States in Namibia. The position was created the day Namibia became independent, which was also the day that Namibia-United States relations were estab ...

Career

Bader retired from foreign service in 2002 and later joined the

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, where he was director of John L. Thornton China Center. From 2009 to 2011, he was senior director for Asian affairs on the

under the

Personal life

Bader is of

Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

descent. In 1985, he married documentary filmmaker Rohini Talalla who he met in New York City. Talalla is an immigrant from

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Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

and is of mixed Sri Lankan, Welsh, Burmese and Chinese ancestry.Washington Life: "ObamaLand: POTUS’ China Watcher – President Obama’s national security advisor on Asian affairs Jeffrey Bader, accompanied by his wife, Rohini Talalla, talks optimistically about future Chinese-American relations" By Chuck Conconi
March 21, 2011

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a statement by Jeffrey A. Bader before the House International Relations committee {{DEFAULTSORT:Bader, Jeffrey A. 1945 births Ambassadors of the United States to Namibia Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 20th-century American Jews Living people United States Foreign Service personnel 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American diplomats 21st-century American diplomats Yale College alumni