Maggie Nardi

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Global Programs and Policy, Africa and the Middle East, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. 

Maggie Nardi assumed the role of Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) covering the offices of Global Programs and Policy and Africa and the Middle East in the INL Bureau in January 2024. She previously served as Acting DAS responsible for the over $150M portfolio of programs and multilateral engagement to combat corruption, cybercrime and synthetic opioids in the Office of Global Programs and Policy since October 2022.

Maggie has worked 29 years for the Department of State covering a range of geographic and substantive issues. She served from 2019-2022 at the U.S. Embassy in Manama, where she split her time as Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires, in Jerusalem from 2016-2019 as the Director for the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs assistance program to the Palestinian Authority Security Forces and as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb, Croatia from 2013-2016.

Other assignments include Director of Regional Policy in the State Department’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau; Deputy Director and Director of the Office of North African Affairs; Deputy Director in the Political-Military Affairs Office in Ankara, Turkey; desk officer covering Croatia; oversight of peacekeeping missions in the Balkans; economic and commercial work in El Salvador; and political and consular work in Warsaw, Poland.

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