SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

SIPA Faculty

Richard Reiter

Adjunct Associate Research Scholar in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs
rtr8@columbia.edu

Biography:

Richard Reiter is a career foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department.  He is currently the Kathryn and Shelby Davis Foreign Service Fellow at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in New York.

During 2011-2012, he served in Afghanistan as Senior Advisor to Regional Command-East.  In that capacity he was based at Bagram Airfield and worked closely with senior military and civilian officials in the eastern part of the country, overseeing civilian efforts on governance and development programs. 

Previously, during 2008-2011, he served as Political & Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal.

Mr. Reiter has served two tours in Brazil, in Canada, Croatia, previously in Afghanistan, and at the U.S. Mission to NATO in Belgium.  He has also served domestic tours at the State Department's headquarters in Washington DC. 

Prior to the State Department, he worked as a school teacher in Honduras and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica.  He studied at Columbia University in New York, earning a B.A. in Economics and an M.I.A. at the School of International and Public Affairs.