Vlad is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Resources. A career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, he has assisted Americans and advanced U.S. border security as a consular officer in Jerusalem, Israel, Chengdu, and Beijing, China, and Baku, Azerbaijan.  He also served as the Principal Officer in Wuhan, China. In Washington, he worked on overseas citizen services at the Bureau of Consular Affairs, policy planning and global issues at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, and on border security at the Bureau of Counterterrorism. He also served as a Pearson Fellow on the Homeland Security Committee at the U.S. House of Representatives. Before joining the Department of State, he worked as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice. Vlad is a graduate of the National War College, Temple University School of Law, and Franklin & Marshall College. He speaks Russian and studied Mandarin Chinese.