Margaret A. Uyehara

Margaret Uyehara
United States Ambassador to Montenegro
Assumed office
February 19, 2015
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Sue Brown
Personal details
Born 1954 (age 61–62)
Berea, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater Kalamazoo College
Georgetown University

Margaret A. Uyehara is an American diplomat and current United States Ambassador to Montenegro. She was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 9, 2014, and confirmed by the Senate in December 2014.[1][2]

Early life and education

Uyehara grew up in Berea, Ohio, the daughter of Kenneth E. and Peggy Bush Yohner. [3] She was an undergraduate at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, and graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in political science. She later studied at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University[4]

Career

After joining the Foreign Service, Uyehara served in Mali, London, Manila, and Tokyo. She became liaison to the National Security Council for the 50th anniversary of the NATO summit. From 1999 to 2002, Uyehara was a supervisory general services officer at the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Uyehara was assigned in 2006 to Kyiv, Ukraine, as management counselor at the U.S. embassy. In 2008 she was named as director of the Regional Support Center at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2010 she became a management counselor in Vienna, Austria.

When she was nominated to become a U.S. ambassador, she was serving in Washington, D.C. as executive director of the Bureaus of European and Eurasian Affairs and International Organization Affairs. [5]

Personal

Uyehara’s husband, Michael, is also a Foreign Service office, and they have three sons and two daughters. In addition to English, Uyehara speaks German, French, Ukrainian and Japanese.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Margaret Ann Uyehara U.S. State Department, accessed May 10, 2016
  2. ↑ The Senate made a few people happy this week, but it’s high anxiety for others The Washington Post, December 19, 2014
  3. ↑ Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 147 (Thursday, December 4, 2014) Congressional Record, accessed May 10, 2016
  4. ↑ Uyehara, Margaret A. Montenegro July 2014 U.S. Department of State, June 2014
  5. ↑ U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro: Who Is Margaret Uyehara? AllGov, October 6, 2014
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Sue Brown		 United States Ambassador to Montenegro
2015–present 		Incumbent
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/30/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.