Avis Bohlen served for 25 years as a career foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department and worked for 30 years for the federal government, retiring from the State Department in May 2002. She has served as assistant secretary for arms control (1999-2002); ambassador to Bulgaria (1996-1999); and deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Paris (1991-1995). Prior to that, Bohlen worked on numerous assignments in the State Department's Bureau of European Affairs. She was deputy assistant secretary for Europe in charge of security issues and served on the secretary's policy planning staff. Over the years, she has been involved in policy on a wide range of issues relating to U.S.-European relations, U.S relations with France, European security issues, arms control and Soviet affairs. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1979, Bohlen worked for the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. From September 2002 to May 2003, Bohlen was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. She is a member of the Defense Advisory Committee at the Center for Naval Analysis and currently serves as chairman of the Board of IREX (International Research and Exchanges). She is also on the boards of the Atlantic Council of the United States, the American Academy of Diplomacy, the American College of Sofia and the Arms Control Association. Bohlen earned her M.A. from Columbia University (1965) and B.A. from Radcliffe College (1961).
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