John Spykerman

About John Spykerman

More than 22 years of service as a diplomat with the Department of State, specializing…

Experience

1. Foreign Service Officer Diplomat

   U.S. Department Of State

   Jun 2003 — Present

   Career diplomat with extensive leadership, management and foreign policy experience. Leadership roles include Acting Deputy Chief of Mission (Embassy Tallinn), Office Director (twice), and Embassy Section Chief.Active Top Secret security clearance.As senior officer, led negotiations with foreign governments and within US government interagency debates. Successes included managing an international coalition to counter Russian disinformation, securing US sanctions against human rights violators, and protecting legal status of US military personnel stationed abroad.Represented US government through multiple media interviews, public speeches, seminars with students, and other public interactions. Media trained, confident public speaker.Policy experiences include promoting human rights, countering foreign disinformation, political-military affairs (NATO, OSCE, arms control, US military partnerships), and US economic, cyber and environmental interests.Earlier experience involved analyzing and formulating Afghanistan-Pakistan policy, counterterrorism policy in Africa, monitoring SE Asia politics, and coordinating large diplomatic events and conferences.Posted to Thailand (20••••07), Afghanistan (20••••09), Germany (20••••16), and Estonia (20••••20).

Education

• The George Washington University

  Security Policy Studies

  2001

• Western Michigan University

  ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS

  1998