Blake
Pritchett
Deputy Director, Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation
U.S. Department of State
Blake Pritchett is the Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation. In this role, he manages a team responsible for upwards of 30 different sanctions programs. Blake has worked on some of the most critical foreign policy issues involving Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, and he has served in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Germany, Turkey, and Sri Lanka. Prior to this role, Blake managed programs to counter weapons of mass destruction proliferation in the State Department and the Department of Defense. He was previously a researcher at the University of Georgia’s Center for International Trade and Security, where he assessed global export control systems.