Christina B. Rocca

Christina B. Rocca (born 1957)^[1] was United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs from 2001 to 2006.

Biography

A native of Washington, D.C., Christina B. Rocca is the daughter of CIA officer Tennent H. Bagley and his wife, Maria Lonyay Bagley. She was educated at King's College London, receiving a B.A. in History in 1980. She speaks French, Russian, Spanish, and German.

In 1982, Rocca joined the

KS), a member of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. She held this post until May 2001. While working for Brownback, she specialized on South Asia, as well as Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East. She authored several pieces of legislation, including the Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999; bills granting permanent normal trade relations status to Kyrgyzstan and Georgia; and three amendments allowing the president to waive certain sanctions imposed on India and Pakistan

In 2001,

President Bush then named Rocca as the United States Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and Ambassador Rocca held this post from August 2006 until January 2009. There, she represented the U.S. during nuclear disarmament talks and negotiations related to the Biological Weapons Convention and the peaceful use of space.

Upon leaving government service in 2009, Rocca joined the consulting firm Visión Américas.

^ "Christina B. Rocca (1957–)". Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 2021-01-05.

Government offices
Preceded by Karl Inderfurth	Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs June 1, 2001 – February 17, 2006	Succeeded by Richard Boucher