Foreign Affairs & Security Assistance
As a strategic advisor to CRDF Global, Dr. Julie Chalfin provides expertise in the design and planning of security assistance programming and workforce development. Throughout her 20 year career with the U.S. Department of State, Dr. Julie Chalfin led security assistance initiatives across multiple bureaus, serving most recently as the Deputy Director, and Chief of the Security Forces Capacity Building Division, in the Political Military Bureau’s Office of Global Programs and Initiatives (PM/GPI) in Washington. Prior to joining State’s Political Military Bureau, Dr. Chalfin was the Chief of Staff for the interagency Security Governance Initiative (SGI) housed in State’s Africa Bureau. Prior to her work in the Africa Bureau, Dr. Chalfin was an American Association for the Advancement of Science diplomacy fellow in the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization at the Department of State.
Before joining the State Department, Dr. Chalfin worked for several international non-governmental organizations, including Save the Children, the Carter Center, and the International Rescue Committee. She conducted research as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethno-political Conflict and earned her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Claremont Graduate University where she researched international conflict management. She is also a graduate of the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy where she earned a master’s degree in National Resource Strategy.
