Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky (born September 14, 1955) is a neo-conservative politician, pundit, and author, and graduate of Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Harvard University. She currently is the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, a position in which she was appointed 1 May 2001 by President George W. Bush. She is a member of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and was one of the signers of the January 26, 1998, PNAC Letter sent to President William Jefferson Clinton. She is also member of and the Trilateral Commission. She was born in Alexandria, Virginia.

Dobriansky has served as Senior Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations, including operations relating to all groups and meetings. She has been designated the Special Coordinator for Tibet.

According to her official Department of State biography, she was "unanimously confirmed" by the Senate. Dobriansky's responsibilities include "a broad range of foreign policy issues, including democracy, human rights, labor, counter-narcotics and law enforcement, refugee and humanitarian relief matters and environmental/scientific issues. (1)

Dobriansky served as Senior International Affairs and Trade Advisor at the law firm of Hunton & Williams and as Co-Chair of the International TV Council at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Dobriansky has held other government positions including the Associate Director for Policy and Programs at the United States Information Agency (1990-1993), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs (1987-1990); Deputy Head of the U.S. Delegation to the 1990 Copenhagen Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe CSCE; Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the 1985 UN Decade for Women Conference in Nairobi, Kenya; and Director of European and Soviet Affairs at the NSC (1983-1984). She also was a coordinator of Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign.

Dobriansky has served on the Western NIS Enterprise Fund , National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, American Council of Young Political Leaders , the American Bar Association Central , East European Law Initiative , and the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.

She previously hosted Freedom's Challenge , and co-hosted Worldwise , and has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN Headline News, CNN, Fox Morning News , John McLaughlin's One-on-One , The McLaughlin Group, C-SPAN, MSNBC, PBS, National Public Radio, and has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations and House International Relations Committees. She is also on the advisory board of the Independent Women’s Forum .