Paula Jon Dobriansky (born September 14, 1955) is an American foreign policy specialist who served as Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs and Special Envoy to Northern Ireland during the administration of President George W. Bush.

She was born in Alexandria, Virginia, the daughter of Ukrainian-American anti-communist activist Lev Dobriansky, the initiator of Captive Nations Week and Julia Kusy Dobriansky, his wife .

She is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and of Harvard University. Her Ph.D. thesis was entitled "The military determinants of Soviet foreign policy, 1945-1988" and was accepted in 1991.