Karl Stoltz

Karl Stoltz retired from the U.S. State Department in October 2024 after 38 ½ years as a diplomat, most recently as Senior Advisor and acting Deputy Coordinator in the Global Engagement Center (GEC), which focused on countering foreign information manipulation and interference. Karl also served as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs in Russia and South Africa, as Deputy Chief of Mission in Denmark and Myanmar, as an Office Director in the East Asia/Pacific Bureau and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and as a public diplomacy officer in Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and the former Soviet Union.  Karl also taught as Public Diplomacy Fellow at GW from 2016-2018.  He studied at the University of Virginia and Middlebury University. Karl speaks Russian, Malaysian, Indonesian, PNG Pidgin, and some Danish, Spanish, and Polish.  His hobbies are traveling, pub quizzes, and the Hash House Harriers worldwide running club.