Steven Fagin

Steven Fagin has been Counselor for Political and Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels, Belgium since September 2010.   Prior to this assignment, he was Deputy Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan (2009-10) and Political-Economic Section Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan (2007-09).  Since joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 1997, he has also served overseas in Egypt, Georgia, Belarus, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in Washington as a Pakistan Desk Officer and as a Special Assistant to then-Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns. 

Mr. Fagin’s foreign languages include Russian, Georgian, and Serbian/Croatian.   He holds a bachelor’s degree in political economy from Williams College and a master’s degree in Russian and East European studies from the University of Michigan, and also attended Harvard Law School.   During the Soviet period, he studied as an exchange student at Tbilisi State University in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.  Mr. Fagin is a native of New York City.