Paula Dobriansky

Since 2011, Dobriansky has served on the Leadership Council for Concordia, a nonpartisan, nonprofit based in New York City focused on promoting effective public-private collaboration to create a more prosperous and sustainable future. She also serves on the advisory board for non-profit group America Abroad Media. and for IDS International, providing the company with guidance on strategy and operations.

In January 2010, Dobriansky served as the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Since March 4, 2009, Dobriansky has served as a Senior Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Dobriansky is also a co-chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center's commission on stabilizing fragile states. She also serves as an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America.

In 2007 in Bali, she was an architect of the 'Bali Roadmap' that established a pragmatic, consensus-driven approach to moving forward towards a new climate treaty. In December 2007 9000 delegates from 187 countries arrived in Bali, Indonesia for the UN Climate Change Conference. Diplomats and scientists were convening to try to strike a new global climate treaty. In her closing statement, Dobriansky said, "The global community has worked together to put into place a good set of elements in the Bali Roadmap on mitigation, adaptation, technology, and finance to guide important considerations toward agreement in 2009 in Copenhagen. It is important that our work be guided by the latest science laid out in the IPCC 4th assessment report. We have taken a first step in Bali in beginning an important discussion about how to achieve a truly global solution. This is a new chapter in climate diplomacy. We are committed to working hard over the next two years to ensure that we implement today's decision in a way that achieves this end. That effort begins today."

In previous administrations, Dobriansky served as Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the National Security Council, Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs and Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency. Former President Bill Clinton appointed her to serve on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. She also served as a Senior Vice-President and Washington Office Director for the Council on Foreign Relations, where she was the George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies.

Paula Jon Dobriansky (born September 14, 1955) is an American foreign policy expert who has served in key roles as a diplomat and policy maker in the administrations of five U.S. presidents, both Democratic and Republican. She is a specialist in the areas of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and in political-military affairs. She served as Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs from 2001–2009. Dobriansky is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. On April 25, 2018, it was reported by U.S. media that President Donald Trump intends to nominate her for the position of Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.