A Bit about Us
Welcome to the Foreign Policy Association’s Forum for the 2008 Presidential Election. This blog will follow developments leading up to the November contest, focusing specifically on foreign policy and international affairs issues. It is hosted by Mark Dillen and Erin Dumbacher.
The Authors
Erin Dian Dumbacher is a research and media analyst in Washington, DC. She holds a degree in International Affairs from the Elliott School at The George Washington University, where she focused on international politics and history in Central and Eastern Europe. She has studied at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) in Warsaw, Poland, and the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and has worked with the institute for cultural diplomacy and for US Congressman Bud Cramer.
Erin’s research interests include international technology policy, post-communist political structures, non-proliferation, and digital media. She enjoys traveling, volunteering, and as befits a GW grad, debating political theory over lattes.
Mark Dillen heads Dillen Communications LLC, an international public affairs consultancy based in San Francisco and Croatia. A former Senior Foreign Service Officer with the US State Department, Mark managed political, media and cultural relations for US embassies in Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Sofia and Belgrade, then moved to the private sector. He has degrees from Columbia and Michigan and was a Diplomat-in-Residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins. Mark has also worked for USAID as a media and political advisor and twice served as election observer and organizer for OSCE in Eastern Europe.