Tatiana Gfoeller is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and member of the board of directors at American Women for International Understanding. Previously, she served as the foreign policy advisor to the chief of staff of the Army from 2011 to 2015 and as foreign policy advisor to the chief of the National Guard Bureau from 2015 to 2017. In these roles, she undertook sensitive diplomatic missions in support of US foreign policy and military interests in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, serving as a primary diplomatic link between the Pentagon and the US State Department.

From 2008 to 2011, she served as US ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic. She was responsible for all aspects of US policy in the country, including logistics and transit support for the US war effort in Afghanistan. She also spearheaded US counterterrorism and counter-narcotics policies in the Kyrgyz Republic.

During her thirty-three-year career with the US Department of State and Department of Defense, Gfoeller reached the highest levels of the US diplomatic service, attaining the rank of minister-counselor. She holds both a BA and MA in international affairs from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She also holds a certificate in international law from the University of Florence. Her foreign languages include Polish, Spanish, Russian, French, Italian, and Arabic. She is married and has one son.