Christina B. Rocca

Christina B. Rocca

Christina B. Rocca (* 1958 ) is an American diplomat who was Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs between 2001 and 2006 .

Life

After attending school, Christina Rocca completed a history degree at King's College London , from which she graduated in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History). She began her professional career in 1982 at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), for which she worked until 1997 as a member of the operations staff. She then worked from 1997 to 2001 as a foreign policy assistant to the Republican Senator from Kansas Sam Brownback .

On June 1, 2001, Christina Rocca succeeded Karl Inderfurth as Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs and was in this role head of the Bureau for South Asian Affairs at the US State Department until February 17, 2006 . He was succeeded on February 21, 2006 by Richard Boucher , who took over the current Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs as part of a reorganization of the Foreign Ministry and thus became Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs . She herself became ambassador to the Geneva Disarmament Conference ( UNCD ) in 2006 and remained in this post until 2009.

After retiring from government service, Christina Rocca, who also worked for the Council on Foreign Relations think tank , joined the consulting firm Vision Americas LLC and became the president of the consulting firm CBR Strategies LLC .

Web links

• Entry on the page of the Office of the Historian of the US State Department
• Christina B. Rocca in the nndb (English)
• Proof of publication in Open Library