Jennie Gromoll is a seasoned, culturally fluent diplomat and collaborator with four decades of public service representing the United States in bilateral and multilateral international security fora. She has extensive experience creating cross-regional, cross-discipline, and multigenerational solutions, particularly across Europe and the Middle East. She is focused on continuing to advance opportunities for professional development, training, and education in the field of international security policy, for successors and their overseas counterparts. She is also furthering U.S. and overseas archival document release, bringing together negotiators, practitioners, and next generations to preserve lessons learned across six decades of negotiations related to weapons of mass destruction.
She served for 38 years in the U.S. Department of State and the former U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA). She was involved in bilateral nuclear, chemical and biological weapons negotiations with the Soviets/Russians and related multilateral treaty partners/negotiations; regional security arrangements in the Middle East and Black Sea/Ukraine; investigation/dismantlement of Soviet, Iraqi and Libyan weapons of mass destruction and landmines. She most recently served as Senior Advisor for Europe and Eurasia in the Office of Policy Coordination in the International Security and Nonproliferation Bureau and USG coordinator for G7, EU and NATO nonproliferation policy. Early in her career, she supported the Office of the Secretary of Defense on NATO Long-Term Planning and served on the U.S. Senate Iran-Contra Committee.
Throughout her career she has focused on bringing together communities to share resources and lessons learned, and how to broaden opportunities for education and professional development across regions and generations. Jennie is Non-Resident Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) and Senior Advisor to the Odesa Nonproliferation Center, Ukraine (OdCNP). She was awarded the Secretary’s Career Achievement Award for her service.