Teresita (Tezi) Currie Schaffer (born 1945), a 1966 graduate of

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh: ) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of elite, historically women's colleges in the United ...

, served in the US Foreign Service for 30 years and was Ambassador to Sri Lanka. She had a concurrent appointment as Ambassador to the Maldives (1992-1995) and was Director of the Foreign Service Institute from 1995 until 1997. Schaffer also served as Director of the Office of International Trade and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East and South Asia (at that time, it was the senior South Asia policy position in the State Department). She is secretary of The Asia Foundation's board of trustees and a Senior Adviser to McLarty Associates, a Washington-based international strategic advisory firm. Besides Bryn Mawr, Schaffer attended Convents of the Sacred Heart in New York, Grenoble, France, and Noroton, Connecticut, and studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris before attending Bryn Mawr. Schaffer was on the board of editors of The Foreign Service Journal.

Publications

*''India at the Global High Table: The Quest for Regional Primacy and Strategic Autonomy'' (Brookings Institution Press) written with husband Howard Bruner Schaffer

References

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