Louis J. Crishock
Principal Deputy High Representative and Brčko District Supervisor since August 2024
Louis J. Crishock currently serves as Principal Deputy High Representative in the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He concurrently serves as the International Supervisor of Brčko District, a distinct administrative region within Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Crishock is a member of the United States’ Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Counselor. He most recently served as State Department Fellow in Residence at the Polar Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. From 2021-2023 he served as United States Senior Arctic Official. Crishock’s overseas assignments in senior leadership include tours as Consul General of the United States, Vladivostok, Russia, and as Charge d’Affaires in St. George’s, Grenada. Prior to joining the State Department, Crishock was a lecturer in Sociology at Ural State University and Deputy Country Director for the Civic Education Project in Russia.
Crishock holds a bachelor’s degree in religion, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC as well as a master’s degree in sociology from the same institution. He is a distinguished graduate of the Eisenhower School of National Security and Resource Strategy of the National Defense University where he studied energy. He has a working knowledge of Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian, Ukrainian and Russian.