Karen Puschel

Karen Puschel is a former U.S. State Department diplomat specializing in Soviet affairs, nuclear security, and disarmament, who represented the department in START nuclear arms reduction treaty negotiations with Russia and served as a military/political adviser in Israel during the Intifada and Gulf War. She opened a new U.S. embassy in Siberia after the Soviet Union's fall, worked on the White House National Security Council under President Bill Clinton from 1998-2000, and advised NATO in Afghanistan post-9/11. Author of 'U.S.-Israeli Strategic Cooperation in the Post-Cold War Era,' she earned a B.A. from Hope College and an M.A. from Georgetown University, and now resides in Michigan with her husband, diplomat Jack Segal.