Ambassador James B. Warlick
Jim Warlick is the President and CEO of Juno Global Strategies, LLC.
In March 2022 with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ambassador Warlick resigned as Managing Director of EPAM America, LLC affiliated with the law firm of Egorov, Puginsky, Afanasiev and Partners based in Moscow. He was a Partner responsible for U.S. and international clients, development of strategic client relationships, legislation, and public policy. EPAM is the largest law firm in the CIS and Eastern Europe.
Prior to EPAM, Ambassador Warlick was a career diplomat in the U.S. Department of State for more than thirty years. He also served concurrently as Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University in 2016. In his diplomatic career, Ambassador Warlick was appointed as U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group in 2013 to work on a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. From 2012 to 2013, Ambassador Warlick served as Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in the office of the Secretary of State and had responsibility for negotiating a Bilateral Security Agreement with Afghanistan. He was confirmed as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Bulgaria on December 24, 2009, by the United States Senate and sworn in on January 19, 2010.
Ambassador Warlick served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO) from 2006 to 2009, with responsibility for all aspects of U.S. foreign policy at the United Nations and a number of other multilateral organizations, and was acting Assistant Secretary in the Obama Administration transition.
Immediately before that assignment, Ambassador Warlick was Director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs, responsible for political-military and security issues for Europe and the former Soviet Union, including NATO, OSCE, and related arms control and nonproliferation policy issues (2005-2006). While Director of the United Nations Political Affairs during 2003-2005, Ambassador Warlick also served as Principal Advisor to Ambassador L. Paul Bremer during January 2004 to July 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq. Other assignments have included: Consul General, U.S. Embassy, Moscow; Director, for Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the European Affairs Bureau; Acting Minister-Counselor/ Deputy Counselor for Political Affairs, U.S. Embassy, Germany; Special Assistant to the Secretary of State; Operations Center Watch Officer; Consular Officer, Philippines; and Political Officer, Bangladesh.
Prior to his State Department service, Ambassador Warlick served as Deputy Representative of the Asia Foundation in Washington, DC and the Philippines; and he was a Foreign Affairs analyst in the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress.
Ambassador Warlick is a graduate of Stanford University (1977), holds a Master of Letters in Politics from Wadham College (1979), Oxford University, and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (1980) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Ambassador Warlick serves on the Advisory Board of MasterCard Europe, the U.S. tech startup Disrupt, and Balkantel providing high end communications solutions in Europe. He is a private pilot, a Cordon Bleu-trained chef, and a regular commentator in the media.
