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Dr. Raffi Gregorian was appointed Brcko Supervisor and Deputy High
Representative in September 2006 and additionally appointed Principal
Deputy High Representative in January 2007. Prior to his current
appointments, he was the senior civilian in NATO Headquarters Sarajevo
(NHQSa) responsible for defence reform and served as Political Advisor to
the NATO Commander regarding all NHQSa missions.
In 2005 he served as the NATO Co-Chairman of the Defence Reform
Commission (DRC) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a position to which he
was appointed by High Representative Lord Paddy Ashdown in December
2004. In just six months the DRC developed and agreed on the
blueprint for a NATO-compatible single military force, with all enabling
legislation at BiH and entity levels being passed in the subsequent five
months.
Prior to his service at NHQSa, Dr Gregorian directed the BiH section in
the United States Department of State from November 2001 to December
2004. His extensive Balkans-related experience includes three years
as Senior Advisor and Chief of Staff in the Office of the Special Adviser
to the President and Secretary of State for Kosovo and Dayton
Implementation, and as acting director of the Kosovo Implementation office
in 2001.
Prior to joining the State Department in 1999, Dr Gregorian was a
Department of Defence Senior Advisor on the Interagency Task Force for
Military Stabilization in the Balkans, where he worked on the Federation
Army Train & Equip program. From 1990-1998 he worked for Science
Applications International Corporation as a Senior Analyst on peace
support operations and counterinsurgency training, doctrine, policy,
strategy and resources, as well as arms control counterintelligence
issues. From 1986 to 1988 he was an historian at the U.S. Army
Centre for Military History in Washington, D.C., where he worked on the
Army’s official history of the Vietnam War.
Dr. Gregorian earned his Ph.D. in International Relations and Strategic
Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies in 1998, an M.A. in War Studies from King’s College, University of
London in 1989, and a B.A. with Honours from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1986. He was a commissioned officer in the U.S.
Naval Reserve from 1993-2006 and served on active duty in Kosovo, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, and on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon. He is the
author of numerous scholarly articles and government publications, has
contributed chapters to various books, and is the author of The British
Army, the Ghurkhas, and Cold War Strategy in the Far East 1947-54 (
London: Macmillan, 2002).
Besides several civil society and academic excellence awards, Dr
Gregorian has also received two individual and two group Superior Honour
Awards from the State Department, Joint Service Commendation Medals for
his military service in Kosovo and in BiH, and a Joint Service Achievement
Medal for service on the Joint Staff. He is a resident of the
Commonwealth of Virginia.
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