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Mathea Falco Photo by Ken Levinson 1st Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs In office 1979–1981 President Jimmy Carter Mathea Falco (born October 15, 1944) is a leading expert in drug abuse prevention and treatment who served as the first U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs during the Carter Administration. Currently, Falco is the President of Drug Strategies[1], a nonprofit research institute based in Washington, D.C., which she created with the support of major foundations in 1993 to identify and promote more effective approaches to substance abuse and international drug policy. Falco received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1965 and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1968. In 1971, Falco became the first woman to serve as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of a major U.S. Senate subcommittee (United States Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency) which had jurisdiction over the Federal laws governing juvenile delinquency, controlled substances, pornography and gun control. In 1977, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance appointed Falco Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter nominated Falco to the newly created position of Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters (currently know as the Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs) a post she held until January 21, 1981. During her four years at the State Department, Falco also led the U.S. delegation to the annual meetings of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. After leaving government in 1981, Falco continued her work in drug policy, serving as a consultant to the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation's U.S.-Mexico Commission, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, and other non-profit organizations. In 1985, Falco was elected to Harvard University's Board of Overseers for a six-year term. From 1993-1994, Falco served as a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Falco is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Criminal Justice at the Harvard Law School as well as an Associate Professor at the Weill Cornell Medical College Department of Public Health in New York[2]. From 2005-2007, Ms. Falco was a Fellow at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, Falco is the author of The Making of a Drug-Free America: Programs That Work[3]. Falco comments frequently in the media on drug abuse research and policy, including NPR, HBO, ABC, NBC, and PBS's NewsHour[4] She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Youth Law[5] and the Treatment Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania[6]. Falco, who is married to Peter Tarnoff, has one son, Benjamin F. Tarnoff. References ^ www.Drugstrategies.com ^ http://weill.cornell.edu/publichealth/about_us/affiliate_faculty.html ^ Falco, Mathea The Making of a Drug-Free America: Programs That Work. Times Books, 1994 ^ The NewsHour "The Drug War", August 30, 2000 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/latin_america/july-dec00/colombia_8-30.html ^ http://www.youthlaw.org/about_ncyl/board_of_directors ^ http://www.tresearch.org/info/board1.htm#falco External links [1] Government offices Preceded by None Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters February 6, 1979 – January 21, 1981 Succeeded by Dominick L. DiCarlo Persondata Name Falco, Mathea Alternative names Short description Date of birth Place of birth Date of death Place of death