SFS Susan Rockwell Johnson (Ret.)

Last Name: Johnson

Middle Name: Rockwell

First Name: Susan

Medals and Honors: Several Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, 2001 DCM of the Year

ACNSL Offices and Committees:

Rank: President

Service/Department: Senior Foreign Service

Last or Significant Assignment: Deputy High Representative, Supervisor of Brcko District

Areas of Expertise: Diplomacy, Foreign Relations

Susan Rockwell Johnson is currently the President and CEO of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST). She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service (retired) with over three decades of distinguished service. In the Foreign Service, she served in a broad range of bilateral and multilateral assignments in and out of the State Department including in Bosnia as Deputy High Representative and Supervisor of Brcko District, in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad as the Senior Advisor to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, as Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’affaires in Romania and Mauritius, as well as in Russia, Cuba, Pakistan, the United States Mission to the United Nations, several assignments in the State Department, on the Hill and with the National Endowment for Democracy.

As the elected President of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) from 2009 to 2013, Ms. Johnson focused on the Foreign Service labor-management issues key to the Foreign Service. Following her two terms as AFSA President, Ms Johnson was detailed to the American Academy of Diplomacy as a Senior Advisor to provide her expertise and work on the Academy’s report “American Diplomacy at Risk”.

Prior to entering the Foreign Service, Ms. Johnson worked in the private sector in the areas of strategic planning, international marketing and joint venture negotiation. She has a B.A. in History (Summa cum Laude) from Principia College and an M.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies (SAIS)