PKSOI/GLOBAL TRENDS CASE STUDIES After the Fall of North Korea | Page 2

Case Study # 0617-03
PKSOI TRENDS GLOBAL CASE STUDY SERIES
Author Biographical Sketch
Tamara Fitzgerald joined the U.S. Army War College’s Peacekeeping and
Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) in August 2016 as its State Depart-
ment Advisor. She is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, with
the rank of Counselor. Starting in 1990, Ms. Fitzgerald served at the U.S.
Embassies in Port of Spain, Moscow, Minsk, Berlin, Canberra, and Baghdad.
Ms. Fitzgerald also served as the U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to
the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The
Hague, and as Arms Control Counselor in the U.S. Mission to International
Organizations in Vienna. In these roles she negotiated with diplomats from
over 150 countries, first on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and
in Vienna on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, as well as on other
nuclear and conventional arms and export control regimes.
Prior to those two assignments Ms. Fitzgerald served as the Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD) in ISAF HQ’s CJ-9
Civil-Military Affairs Division in Kabul working on governance issues in Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs), and
then as the POLAD to U.S. Air Forces Central Command (USAFCENT) in Qatar where she provided diplomatic
guidance to the three-star Commander. Ms. Fitzgerald also worked in the Department of State in the Bureau of Politi-
cal-Military Affairs, dealing with arms control treaties.
Ms. Fitzgerald graduated from the University of Colorado with a B.A. in Central and East European Affairs and Russian
Language Studies, and from the National War College with an M.S. in National Security Strategy. She served in West
Berlin in the mid-1980s as a U.S. Army Russian linguist. She speaks Russian and German.