Karl Inderfurth Biography
Karl Inderfurth is a diplomat from the United States. From August 1997 to January 2001, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs. Inderfurth also served as a national security journalist for ABC News, focusing on arms control, and won an Emmy in 1983. From February 1989 through August 1991, Inderfurth was ABC News’ Moscow reporter.
Karl Inderfurth Age
Karl was born Karl Frederick Inderfurth on 29 September 1946 in the United States of America. He is 76 years old as of September 2022.
Karl Inderfurth Education
He obtained his B.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland in 1973, where he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of the University in 2013. In 1975, he received his M.A. from Princeton University’s Department of Politics.
Karl Inderfurth Wife
He is married to his wife, Anna.
Karl Inderfurth ABC News
From August 1997 to January 2001, he served as the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs. As Assistant Secretary, Inderfurth was in charge of US policy in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Prior to his nomination as Assistant Secretary, Inderfurth was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs. Ambassador Inderfurth engaged with topics like UN peacekeeping, nuclear proliferation, and security affairs in this position. Inderfurth also served as the United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations Security Council. Inderfurth worked on the staffs of the National Security Council, the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Inderfurth also served as a national security journalist for ABC News, focusing on arms control, and won an Emmy in 1983. From February 1989 through August 1991, Inderfurth was ABC News’ Moscow reporter. Inderfurth was featured in the BBC documentary The Situation Room: America in Crisis in 2002, alongside other high-level, retired ambassadors and political appointees. Inderfurth co-authored Fateful Decisions: Inside the National Security Council (2004) with Dr. Loch K. Johnson and is a frequent op-ed contributor to major American publications. Inderfurth is currently an adjunct professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He was a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Wadhwani Chair in US-India Policy Studies.
Previously, he was the director of the Elliott School’s graduate program in international affairs. His areas of expertise at the National Security Council and the Department of State were US-South Asian relations and national security decision-making. In addition, he instructed an undergraduate course on “Film and US Foreign Policy.” Since joining the George Washington community in 2001, Inderfurth has assisted in the organization of visits by high-ranking diplomats and heads of state such as former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and others. Inderfurth is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Fulbright Association, and the Asia Foundation’s board of trustees. Inderfurth joined the National Democratic Institute’s Board of Directors in 2014.
Karl Inderfurth Net Worth
Karl has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.