MR. WALTER E. ANDRUSYSZYN

Mr. Andrusyszyn is the Director of the Office of European and Political Affairs at the Department of State. Having entered the Foreign Service in 1980 he served in Stockholm from 1980 to 1982 and in East Berlin from 1982 to 1984 before returning to Washington to be the Desk Officer for Grenada and the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean (1985-1987). Between 1987 and 1988 he was Special Assistant to Assistant Secretary Rozanne Ridgeway in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. He then served in Bonn as the Bonn Group Representative, responsible for Berlin and Four Power rights during Germany’s reunification. In 1990, he headed the Political-Military unit at the American Embassy in Bonn. Mr. Andrusyszyn returned to Washington in 1992 to become the Desk Officer for Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. In 1994, he returned to Bonn to head the unit reporting on domestic political events in Germany. In 1995 he was assigned to the American Embassy in Sarajevo where he served during the Dayton Peace Talks and for the first months of IFOR deployment. In 1996, he was assigned to Stockholm as Political Counselor. Mr. Andrusyszyn graduated from New York University and attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy between 1973 and 1975. He continued his studies in Germany and also worked as a local employee for the Sri Lanka Embassy in Bonn from 1977 to 1978.