Experience

• Former Deputy High Commissioner for the UN Commissioner for Refugees (2004-2006) and Assistant Administrator of the Asia/Near East Division of USAID (2002-2004)
• US Ambassador to Pakistan (2001-2002) and to the Lao People's Democratic Republic (1996-1999)
• Other assignments included Director General of Global Affairs and Counter-terrorism at the National Security Council; Director of Press Operations for the State Department's Near East Bureau
• Diplomatic assignments in Morocco, Malaysia, Pakistan and Zaire