James Seevers

James P. Seevers is Director of Studies and Training at Georgetown's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. He also directs the Georgetown Leadership Seminar (GLS) at the School of Foreign Service. In addition, he teaches at the graduate level in the School of Foreign Service, designs and carries out training programs for foreign diplomats, and conducts international negotiation and crisis simulations for Georgetown students at campuses in Washington, D.C. and Doha, Qatar. For fifteen years prior to joining the Institute in 2005, Mr. Seevers was a State Department foreign service officer, gaining wide-ranging foreign policy experience through his work on South Asia, Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America and Capitol Hill. He served as a political officer in Indonesia during its 1996-99 democratic transition, participated in U.N.-led efforts to reunify Cyprus during 2001-03, and worked from 2003-05 on enhancing the U.S.-India strategic partnership. Mr. Seevers' extensive congressional experience includes working on foreign and national security policy in the Senate and the Congressional Research Service and as a State Department liaison officer to Capitol Hill.