Giovanni Snidle is a distinguished former U.S. career diplomat with more than forty-four years of experience in foreign policy and national security. He spent the majority of his career at the U.S. Department of State, where he served as senior coordinator for hemispheric security policy and as security and defense adviser to the U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States (OAS). In 2003, he became the first U.S. representative to chair the OAS Committee on Hemispheric Security.

Snidle also represented the United States on the United Nations Secretary-General’s Group of Governmental Experts on the UN Register of Conventional Arms in 1997, 2000, and 2003. His earlier roles included special adviser for regional security in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and foreign affairs specialist at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In 1994, he received the Arthur S. Flemming Award for outstanding federal service.

He currently serves as a diplomat in residence and consultant at the Inter-American Defense College. Snidle holds a B.A. in international studies and economics from American University and an M.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.