Harry W. Kopp is the co-author (with John K. Naland) of Career Diplomacy: Life and Work in the US Foreign Service. Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the only Foreign Service officer to serve as secretary of state, called Career Diplomacy "the best description of life in the foreign service -- its challenges, dangers, satisfactions, and fun -- I have ever seen." Georgetown University Press will publish a fourth and thoroughly revised edition of Career Diplomacy on November 1, 2021.

Kopp, whose other works include Commercial Diplomacy and the National Interest (American Academy of Diplomacy, 2004), and Voice of the Foreign Service: A History of the American Foreign Service Association (Foreign Service Books, 2015), joined the Foreign Service in 1967. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state for international trade policy in the Carter and Reagan administrations. His overseas assignments included Warsaw, Poland and Brasilia, Brazil. He received superior and meritorious honor awards from the Department of State and a presidential award for public service from President Ronald Reagan.

Kopp writes often for the Foreign Service Journal (http://www.afsa.org/publications), where he is also a member of the editorial board. His articles and commentary have appeared in The New York Times and other publications. His short story "Trotsky in the Bronx" won the 2012 Goldenberg Fiction Prize from the Bellevue Literary Review.

Kopp holds degrees from Hamilton College and Yale University. He lives with his wife Jane in Baltimore, Maryland.