Teresita Schaffer

Teresita Schaffer is a Senior Advisor on India and South Asia at McLarty Associates. In a 30-year career in the US Foreign Service, Ambassador Schaffer was recognized as one of the State Department’s leading experts on South Asia, where she spent a total of 11 years. Her other career focus was on international economic issues. She served in US embassies in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and from 1992-95 as US Ambassador in Sri Lanka. During her assignments in the State Department in Washington, she was Director of the Office of International Trade and later Deputy Assistant Secretary of state for the Near East and South Asia, at that time the Senior South Asia Policy position in the State Department.

Ambassador Schaffer was previously a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She also created the South Asia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and directed it from 1998-2010. That program produced path-breaking research on economic, political, security and risk management trends on India and Pakistan, but also more broadly on the region that extends from Afghanistan through Bangladesh.

Ambassador Schaffer is the author of India at the Global High Table: The Quest for Regional Primacy and Strategic Autonomy, published in 2016 (co-authored with her husband, Howard Schaffer); as well as India and the US in the 21st Century: Reinventing Partnership, published in 2009 and widely recognized as the leading work on the post-2000 US-India relationship and its future prospects. Ambassador Schaffer and her husband also wrote How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States, published in 2011. Earlier writings included Pakistan’s Future and US Policy Options (2004); India at the Crossroads: Confronting the Challenge of HIV/AIDS (2004) and a series of other studies on HIV and public health issues in India; and two studies on women in development in Bangladesh (1985).

Ambassador Schaffer received a BA from Bryn Mawr College and studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. She did graduate work in economics at Georgetown University. She speaks Hindi, Urdu, French, Swedish, German and Italian, and has studied Bangla and Sinhala.

特雷西塔·沙弗（Teresita Schaffer）是华盛顿国际战略咨询公司的印度和南亚高级顾问。在其30年的美国职业外交生涯中，沙弗大使在美国国务院是公认的权威南亚专家之一，她曾在那里工作了 11 年。她的另一个专业领域是国际经济问题。她曾被派驻美国驻巴基斯坦、印度和孟加拉国大使馆，并于1992年至1995年担任美国驻斯里兰卡大使。在华盛顿任职期间，她担任国务院国际贸易办公室主任，后来担任主管近东和南亚的副助理国务卿，当时这是国务院系统主管南亚政策的最高职务。

沙弗大使是布鲁金斯学会的客座高级研究员。她曾在战略与国际研究中心创建了南亚项目，并在1998年至2010年担任该项目的主管。该项目在印度和巴基斯坦的经济、政治、安全和风险管理趋势领域取得了突破性的研究成果，同时涵盖了从阿富汗到孟加拉国地区更广泛的研究。

沙弗大使于2016年出版了专著《印度全球地位的上升：追求区域领导权和战略自治》（与她的丈夫霍华德·沙弗合著）；并于2009年出版《二十一世纪的印度和美国：重塑合作伙伴关系》，该书被广泛认为是关于2000年后美印关系及其未来前景的权威著作。沙弗大使和她的丈夫还在2011年出版了《巴基斯坦如何与美国谈判》。其早期著作包括《巴基斯坦的未来与美国的政策选择》（2004年）、《十字路口的印度：直面艾滋病毒/艾滋病的挑战》（2004年）、以及有关印度艾滋病毒和公共卫生问题的一系列其他研究成果；她还完成了两项关于孟加拉国妇女在发展中的作用的研究报告（1985年）。

沙弗大使拥有布林莫尔学院的学士学位，也曾在巴黎政治学院学习。她曾在乔治城大学攻读经济学研究生学位，会讲印地语、乌尔都语、法语、瑞典语、德语和意大利语，也学习过孟加拉语和僧伽罗语。