Elizabeth F. Bagley

Elizabeth Frawley Bagley "was appointed ambassador to Portugal by Bill Clinton in 1994 and held the post until 1997. She then served as a Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Madeline Albright from November 1997 to January 2001. She also held several positions in the State Department under the Carter Administration from 1977-1981.

"She currently serves on The United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy, the Council on Foreign Relations, Council of American Ambassadors, Vital Voices International, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. She is the Associate Director for the Task Force on Threats to Democracy." 

"Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley joined the law firm of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips as “of Counsel” to their Washington office and as a Senior Advisor for Manatt Jones Global Strategies in 2005. She also served as Associate Director of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Democracy. Her extra curricular activities include serving as Chair of the National Advisory Board for the Democratic National Committee and Chair of the Clinton Library Board of Trustees. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, Vital Voices International, the American Ireland Fund, Refugees International, and was approved by the Senate as a member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy in April, 2003.

"Ambassador Elizabeth Frawley Bagley served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State from 1997 – 2001, where she established and headed the Office of Media Programming Acquisition for the newly independent Balkan states. She also served as a Senate liaison for NATO Enlargement. Prior to her position at the State Department, Ambassador Bagley served as the U.S. Ambassador to Portugal from 1994 to 1997. Upon her departure from Portugal, she received meritorious awards from the Portuguese Navy and Air Force, as well as the “Grand Cross of Prince Henry the Navigator,” the President of Portugal’s highest civilian commendation.

"She has also received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Regis College in 2003 and the “Global Democracy Award” from the International Women's Democracy Center in March, 2005, and she was also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in May, 2005.

"An attorney specializing in trade and international law, she was Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University in Washington until January 1993. She has held several positions in the Department of State: Congressional Liaison Officer for the Panama Canal Treaties during the Carter Administration (1977 – 1979); Special Assistant to Ambassador Sol Linowitz for the Camp David Accords, (1979- 1980); and Congressional Liaison to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (1980 – 1981).

"Ambassador Frawley Bagley is a 1974 graduate of Regis College in Weston, Massachusetts, where she graduated cum laude with a B.A. degree in French and Spanish. She is a 1987 graduate of the Georgetown University Law School, where she obtained a J.D. Degree in International law. She also attended university and law school in France, Spain, and Austria, where she studied international trade law and public international law.

"She is married to Smith Bagley and is the mother of two children, a daughter, Vaughan, age 17, and son Conor, age 13½."


 * Director, French-American Foundation