{"id":8155,"date":"2025-11-10T16:21:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/?page_id=8155"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:19:44","slug":"robin-raphel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/robin-raphel\/","title":{"rendered":"Robin Raphel"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"8155\" class=\"elementor elementor-8155\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9d8440a elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9d8440a\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-883f5cb\" data-id=\"883f5cb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f703b1c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f703b1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-11-10-at-22.08.41-1-reidq488smwt9am9yumj40pnpqa0vz22812lo9avm0.jpeg\" title=\"WhatsApp Image 2025-11-10 at 22.08.41 (1)\" alt=\"WhatsApp Image 2025-11-10 at 22.08.41 (1)\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8f2bd7e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8f2bd7e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Robin Raphel <\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-56acc65 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"56acc65\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Ambassador Robin Raphel has deep expertise on political, security and economic issues in South Asia and the Middle East.\u00a0 A career foreign service officer for nearly four decades, she served as the first Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Ambassador to Tunisia, Vice President of the National Defense University, and Deputy Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.\u00a0 She managed the sharp increase of economic development assistance to Pakistan during the war on terror, and deployed to Iraq with the first civilian contingent after the 2003 invasion to help restore the critical\u00a0food ration system. Earlier in her career she served in Pakistan, India, South Africa and the UK,\u00a0and taught history at Damavand Women\u2019s College in Iran. \u00a0<\/p><p>Ambassador Raphel is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Nichols Liu LLC.\u00a0 She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the Pugwash Council.\u00a0 She serves on the board of the Association of Diplomatic Studies and Training, the Friends of The American University of Afghanistan, and the America-Pakistan Foundation. \u00a0She is a frequent speaker on South Asian issues in the US and the region. She received the prestigious Hilal-i-Pakistan Award from the President of Pakistan in 2023 for her longstanding efforts to promote better US-Pakistan relations.<\/p><p>Ambassador Raphel holds a BA degree from the University of Washington, and graduate degrees from University of Maryland and Cambridge University in the UK. \u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin Raphel Ambassador Robin Raphel has deep expertise on political, security and economic issues in South Asia and the Middle East.\u00a0 A career foreign service officer for nearly four decades, she served as the first Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, Ambassador to Tunisia, Vice President of the National Defense University, and Deputy Special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8155","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","style2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8191,"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8155\/revisions\/8191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}