McLarty Associates welcomes Safiya Ghori-Ahmad

We are pleased to welcome Safiya Ghori-Ahmad to McLarty Associates as a Director in our South Asia and McLarty Inbound practices. She is based in Washington.

Safiya joins MA from her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, where she led global business development at an international law firm. She previously served on the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, covering South and Central Asia. She also served in the State Department, as an advisor on Pakistan and Afghanistan in the Office of the Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) under Secretaries Clinton and Kerry. She began her State Department career in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, where she managed portfolios in South Asia and traveled extensively throughout the region promoting good governance, transparency, and the rule of law.

Safiya joins our strong India & South Asia team, led by former Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central and US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert O. Blake, Jr., which also includes:

In addition to our Washington-based South Asia team, we enjoy a close, on-the-ground partnership with Dua Consulting in New Delhi.

Safiya will also work with our McLarty Inbound practice, led by former US Ambassador to Germany and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Richard Burt, which includes:

  • Philippe Maze-Sencier, who leads our Brussels office, previously managed government relations practice of a global public affairs firm
  • James Keith, who leads our work in Asia, served as US Ambassador to Malaysia and Consul-General in Hong Kong
  • Jorge Guajardo, who served as Mexico’s Ambassador to China
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