Schaffer, Teresita C.

Teresita Schaffer specialized in South Asia and international economics during her thirty-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service. She served in Islamabad and New Delhi (1974-77 and 1977-79), as deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia (1989 92), as U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka (1992 95), and as director of the Foreign Service Institute (1995 97). She created and directed the South Asia program at CSIS from 1998-2010.