1. Kathleen Mathea Falco was born on October 15,1944 and is an American lawyer who is a expert in drug abuse prevention and treatment who served as the first US Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs during the Carter Administration.
Currently, Falco is the President of Drug Strategies, a nonprofit research institute based in Washington, DC, which she created with the support of major foundations in 1993 to identify and promote more effective approaches to substance abuse and international drug policy.
In 1971, Mathea Falco became the first woman to serve as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of a major US Senate subcommittee which had jurisdiction over the Federal laws governing juvenile delinquency, controlled substances, pornography and gun control.
Mathea Falco is currently a visiting scholar at the Harvard Law School Program for International Criminal Justice.
Mathea Falco is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Center for Youth Law and the Treatment Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mathea Falco was a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies Committees on "Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Substance Use Disorders in the US Armed Forces" and "Prevention of HIV Infection among Injecting Drug Users in High Risk Countries".
From 2013 to 2016, Mathea Falco was a member of the US Food and Drug Administration Drug Safety Advisory Committee.
Mathea Falco is Chair of Trustees, Irawaddy Policy Exchange.
Mathea Falco co-hosted two working groups on transnational organized crime at Harvard Law School in 2011 which were attended by policy experts from the United States, Mexico, Colombia, and Spain, including a number of Mexican officials at the federal, state, and local levels.
In 2016, Mathea Falco was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.