James Warlick earned a B.A. at
Stanford University in 1977, holds a Master of Letters in Politics from
Wadham College,
Oxford, (1979) and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (1980) from the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,
Tufts University. While Director of the United Nations Political Affairs in IO during 2003–2005, Ambassador Warlick also served as Principal Advisor to Ambassador
L. Paul Bremer during January 2004 to July 2004 in
Baghdad, Iraq. Warlick was Director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs, responsible for political-military and security issues for Europe and the former Soviet Union, including NATO, OSCE, and related arms control and nonproliferation policy issues (2005–2006). Warlick served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO) from 2006 to 2009, with responsibility for all aspects of U.S. foreign policy at the
United Nations and a number of other multilateral organizations. Other assignments have included: • Consul General,
U.S. Embassy, Moscow; • Director, for
Germany,
Austria and
Switzerland in the European Affairs Bureau; • Acting Minister-Counselor/ Deputy Counselor for Political Affairs, • U.S. Embassy,
Germany, Acting Minister-Counselor/ Deputy Counselor for Political Affairs • Special Assistant to the Secretary of State; • Operations Center Watch Officer; Consular Officer,
Philippines; and Political Officer,
Bangladesh. Prior to his State Department service, Ambassador Warlick served as Deputy Representative of the
Asia Foundation in
Washington, DC and the
Philippines; and he was a Foreign Affairs analyst in the Congressional Research Service at the
Library of Congress. In January 2017, Warlick joined the law firm
Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, working out of
Washington, D.C. Warlik's LinkedIn page announced that he has left the Russian law firm in March 2022. ==References==