Raymond Arnaudo

Office of Oceans Affairs

U.S. Department of State

arnaudorv@gmail.com

Washington , District of Columbia 20005

Mr. Raymond V. Arnaudo is a retired diplomat and former Senior Scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, with a career of experience in international environmental and science policy affairs at the State Department. He has a long history of work in the area of US polar policy, including Director of the Office of Oceans and Polar Affairs at the State Department, head of U.S. delegations to Antarctic and Arctic meetings, Chairman of the Arctic Council in 1998-2000, and Science Counselor at US Embassy London. He has also served abroad in Moscow, and, for the last 4 years of his government career, served on Secretary of State Clinton’s Policy Planning Staff. Mr. Arnaudo received his B.A. degree from Stanford University and his M.A. from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and served in the U.S. military. He is a native San Franciscan and married to Rose Gottemoeller.