Jorgan K. Andrews is a Senior Foreign Service Officer at the U.S. Department of State with 29 years of experience in diplomacy and national security.  Currently, he serves as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India.

Mr. Andrews previously served as a State Department Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, where his work focused on Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine.  As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) from 2018 to 2021, he oversaw justice and security sector assistance programs in 32 countries across Europe and Asia with an annual appropriation of more than $345 million administered by over 1,200 employees and contractors.

From 2016 to 2018, Mr. Andrews was the Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, responsible for U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova.  Previously, he worked in two of INL’s three largest programs in Colombia and Mexico.  As INL Director in Bogota from 2013 to 2016, and as Deputy Director in Mexico City from 2010 to 2013, he led U.S. civilian security assistance implementation to counter transnational organized crime and narcotics trafficking while strengthening justice sector institutions.

Since joining the State Department in 1995, Mr. Andrews has also served in the South and Central Asia Directorate of the National Security Council (2007-2009) and other Washington assignments, in addition to overseas assignments in Kazakhstan (2001-2004), Guatemala (1998-2000), and Russia (1996-1998).  Mr. Andrews holds a law degree and a master’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, a master’s degree in national security strategy from the National War College, and a bachelor’s degree in Russian language and international affairs from the University of Colorado at Boulder.  A former attorney from Colorado, he speaks Russian, Spanish, and some Ukrainian.