Robin Raphel

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Robin Raphel (2012)

Robin Lynn Raphel (birth name: Robin Lynn Johnson ; * 1947 in Vancouver , Washington ) is a former US diplomat who was Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs between 1993 and 1997 and then Ambassador to Tunisia from 1997 to 2000 was.

Life

Studies and beginning of the diplomatic career

Robin Johnson began after attending high school in Longview in 1965 to study history and economics at the University of Washington , which she graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA History and Economics). In the meantime, she completed a visiting history course at the University of London from 1967 to 1968 and a year abroad at the University of Cambridge from 1969 to 1970 . She then worked as a history teacher at Damavand College in Tehran between 1970 and 1972 . Upon her return, she completed a postgraduate degree in economics at the University System of Maryland , which she completed with a Master of Arts (MA Economics).

1973 Robin Johnson began his professional activities as Wirtschaftsanalystin at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), but switched in 1975 to the US Agency for Development Cooperation USAID ( US Agency for International Development ) , for which she as a business and financial analyst in until 1978 Islamabad worked . At that time she married in 1978 the then political speakers at the embassy in Pakistan , Arnold L. Raphel . In 1978 she herself joined the diplomatic service of the US State Department and was initially an economics officer in the division for investment affairs and then an economics officer in the field for Israel, before she worked on the staff of the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs Richard W. Murphy was.

1984 joined Robin Raphel as a Policy Officer to the Embassy in the United Kingdom was and followed between 1988 and 1991 only Counselor and Head of the Political Section at the Embassy in South Africa and then the Political 1991-1993 Counselor and head of department at the embassy in India .

Assistant Secretary of State , Ambassador and Espionage Allegations

Robin Raphel (left) with Richard Holbrooke , Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani in Pakistan (2009)

On August 6, 1993, Robin Raphel became Assistant Secretaries of State for South Asian Affairs and thus head of the Department for South Asia in the State Department. She held the office of Assistant Secretaries of State for South Asian Affairs until June 27, 1997, before Karl Inderfurth took over on August 4, 1997 . As Assistant Secretaries of State for South Asian Affairs , she supported the idea of ​​the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan gas pipeline (TAP) planned since the 1990s .

Robin Raphel herself then succeeded Mary Ann Casey as Ambassador to Tunisia on December 18, 1997 and held this post until August 6, 2000. She was then from 2000 until she was replaced by the previous ambassador in Kenya , Johnnie Carson , in 2003 Senior Vice President of the National Defense University (NDU). In 2003 she returned to the State Department, where she served as coordinator for the reconstruction of Iraq until 2005 , before working for the Washington, DC- based lobbying firm Cassidy & Associates between 2005 and 2009 .

In 2009, Robin Raphel, who also worked for the Council on Foreign Relations think tank , returned to the US State Department where she became Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan ( AfPak ), Richard Holbrooke . She also held this position under Holbrooke's successors Marc Grossman (2010 to 2012) and most recently James Dobbins (2012 to 2014). In October 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ransacked her home and office on allegations of espionage after wiretapping a Pakistani official. As a result, she was initially on leave before the contract with the Foreign Ministry was terminated on November 2, 2014. In March 2016, the US Department of Justice announced that it had formally closed the investigation and would not bring charges.

Robin Raphel has been married to Leonard Ashton for the second time since 1990. From this marriage two daughters were born.

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  1. ↑ Arnold L. Raphel and Robin Raphel were married again in 1980. Arnold L. Raphel became ambassador to Pakistan in 1987 and died on August 17, 1988 together with the then President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq in a plane crash.
  2. ↑ Robin Raphel was the first Assistant Secretary of State in this area, since Edward Djerejian, as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, was only acting Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs and James P. Covey, originally intended for this position, was not appointed because the US Senate did not deal with the nomination.
  3. ↑ On November 20, 2001, he was succeeded as Ambassador to Tunisia by Rust Macpherson Deming , who previously served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs as the first deputy head of the Department for East Asia and the Pacific in the Foreign Ministry.
  4. ^ National Security: US diplomat and longtime Pakistan expert is under federal investigation . In: The Washington Post, November 6, 2014
  5. ^ FBI Is Investigating Retired US Diplomat, a Pakistan Expert, Officials Say . In: The New York Times, November 8, 2011
  6. ↑ An Intercepted Conversation Led To One Of The Most Prominent People In DC Being Investigated For Espionage . In: Business Insider of November 21, 2014
  7. ↑ US Ends Spying Case Against Former Envoy . In: The New York Times of March 22, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Raphel, Robin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raphel, Robin Lynn (full name); Johnson, Robin Lynn (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , Washington