Rebecca Wallace

Rebecca Wallace is a civil service officer with expertise and deep interest in foreign affairs, UN peacekeeping, and wider multilateral issues. She currently serves at a senior policy advisor to Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in Washington. She previously served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Peacekeeping Operations in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO/PKO). In her more than 10 years with the Department, she has served as the IO Senior Economic Advisor, the IO Senior Peacekeeping Advisor, as Advisor to the U.S. Special Representative for the Great Lakes Region of Africa, and as Peacekeeping Advisor for the UN peacekeeping missions in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Before joining the Department of State, Rebecca worked for the Future of Peace Operations program at the Henry L. Stimson Center and as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College with an undergraduate degree in International Relations and received a master’s degree in International Affairs and Conflict Resolution from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University. Rebecca has one husband, one child, one dog, and six chickens.