Bathsheba N. Crocker

Bathsheba Crocker is a senior associate with the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project. She also serves as deputy chief of staff to the UN secretary-general’s special envoy for tsunami recovery, former U.S. president William J. Clinton. In that capacity, she focuses on reconstruction efforts in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, and Thailand. Previously, she codirected the CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project and was a fellow in the CSIS International Security Program. From 2002 to 2003, she was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at CSIS, working on post-conflict reconstruction issues. She was a member of a CSIS-led reconstruction-assessment team that went to Iraq in July 2003 at the request of the U.S. Department of Defense. Before joining CSIS, Ms. Crocker worked as an attorney-adviser in the Legal Adviser’s Office at the U.S. Department of State, where she focused on foreign assistance, appropriations law, and economic sanctions issues. Prior to that, she served as deputy U.S. special representative for the Southeast Europe Initiative in Rome, Italy, working on economic reconstruction in the Balkans. She had previously served as executive assistant to the deputy national security adviser at the White House. Ms. Crocker received a B.A. from Stanford University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.