Careers in the U.S. State Department and Foreign Services, a conversation with Diplomat in Residence Richard Jaworski

Richard Jaworski, a senior foreign service officer who most recently completed an assignment at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, will begin a year of service in September as the diplomat in residence for the Southern Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Jaworski will be hosted by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Baghdad, Jaworski served as minister counselor for management affairs at the U.S. Embassy. The U.S. Mission in Iraq is currently the largest U.S. foreign mission in the world. While there, Jaworski was responsible for a Department of State budget exceeding $400 million and a staff of over 3,000 U.S. government and contractor employees under Chief of Mission Authority.Jaworski also served as minister counselor for management for the U.S. Mission in Turkey from 2010 to 2013 and as deputy executive director of the Bureaus of European and Eurasian Affairs and International Organizations Affairs from 2008 to 2010. His prior postings include London, Warsaw, Tel-Aviv, Helsinki, Moscow and Washington D.C. Before joining the Foreign Service, Jaworski worked as a crisis intervention and foster care counselor for runaway teenagers in the Detroit area