February 28,
2002
John M. Evans, Director,
Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia, Bureau of
Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State
A native of Williamsburg, Virginia,
and a graduate of Yale College, with study toward the
Ph.D. at Columbia, Evans joined the U.S. Foreign
Service as a political officer in 1971. He has served
in diplomatic missions in Iran (1971-74),
Czechoslovakia (1975-78), the Soviet Union (Moscow,
1981083), at NATO Headquarters, 1983-86), the Czech
Republic (as Deputy Chief of Mission, 1991-97). He has
also represented the United States as deputy head of
delegation to a number of experts meetings of the
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and
headed the OSCE Mission to Moldova, an international
mediation and peacekeeping operation, 1997-99. In the
State Department, he has served as a special assistant
to Secretaries Vance and Muskie, as Deputy Director of
the Soviet Desk, and, since July 1999, as Director of
the Office of Analysis for Russia and Eurasia.
Evans is married to the former Donna
Chamberlain, executive director of the World Affairs
Council of Washington. They have a daughter who lives
in New York City.
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