Dachi Bio

Stephen Dachi

Stephen F. Dachi is a foreign affairs specialist and international consultant, who served as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service in Asia, Central Europe and Latin America from 1967 to1996. Currently he is Chair for South Asian Area Studies (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh) at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State, in charge of seminars for officials in government foreign affairs agencies, including the diplomatic, military, intelligence and law enforcement fields. He is a Professorial Lecturer at The Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University where he teaches Political Islam. He also heads an international trade and investment consulting group, with clients in Asia, Central Europe and Latin America.

During his career as a foreign service officer, Stephen Dachi has served as Minister Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, Consul General of the United States in São Paulo, Brazil, Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States, as well as Director for Latin America and the Caribbean and later as Acting Director for Near East, North Africa and South Asia at the U.S. Information Agency. From 1988-1990 Dachi was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, and in 1994 served in a similar capacity at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.