Kara L. Bue is a founding partner of Armitage International, L.C., a global business advisory firm established in 2005. Previously, Ms. Bue served as deputy assistant secretary for political-military affairs at the U.S. Department of State. In that capacity, she managed programs involving government-to-government arms sales, foreign military assistance, and humanitarian mine-action. From 2001 to 2003, she served as special assistant for South Asia to then-deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage. Before joining the Department of State, Ms. Bue practiced corporate law in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, California. Earlier in her career, she held positions in the Department of the Army, Office of the Secretary of Defense, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations. Through the Center for Civil-Military Relations at the Naval Postgraduate School, Ms. Bue has taught courses on civil-military relations to foreign civilian and military participants, and managed defense reform programs in Peru and Cambodia.
Ms. Bue currently serves on the board of directors of several privately held government service providers. She is also past Chair of the Mines Advisory Group (MAG)—America, a non-governmental organization devoted to the demining of war-torn countries, and a past member of the Dean’s Advisory Board of George Mason University’s Honors College.
