Jessica LeCroy

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Jessica LeCroy is a Visiting Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations--the first State Department official to be detailed to the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies. (See www.cfr.org for current official biography.)

Ms LeCroy was Consul General at the United States Consulate in Toronto, Canada from 2004 to 2006. The Director General of the Foreign Service has recorded that, during her tenure as Consul General, the Consulate received a record number of Departmental Superior Honor awards for performance. She took the posting in September 2004 after serving assignments outside the Department of State for three years: First as National Security Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury from 2001-2003 where she advised Treasury Department principals on all foreign policy issues under National Security Council review, and then as among the first foreign service officers requested to serve for a year in Iraq where from 2003-2004 she was Executive Officer to the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the Director of the organization's secretariat.

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with cone specialization in both management and political issues, Ms. LeCroy's overseas assignments have included Tbilisi, Georgia, where she assisted in opening the U.S. embassy after the fall of the former Soviet Union and served in various positions from Charge d'Affaires to political and economic head of sections; Bosnia as a political officer, where she concentrated on media and elections issues; The Netherlands, as a management officer; and Nicaragua, as a consular and human rights officer.

Ms. LeCroy's domestic assignments in the Department of State include service as Senior Advisor to the Ambassador at Large for Regional Conflicts in the Newly Independent States, Deputy Director for the Office of UK, Benelux and Ireland Affairs, Senior Watch Officer in the Department's 24-hour Operations Center, head of the U.S. telecommunications delegation to COCOM on the transfer of sensitive technology to the then-Soviet Union, and Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs and Policy in the Office of the Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism.

[edit] Awards and Honors

Ms. LeCroy was awarded a Salzburg Fellowship in international arbitration and an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship, where she worked as Senior Legislative Assistant for Trade and Foreign Policy for Senator Bill Bradley (NJ). She is the recipient of several State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, as well as the Matilda Sinclaire Award for achievement in a difficult language (Georgian). Her foreign language studies include Spanish, French, German, Russian and Georgian. The Director General of the Foreign Service issued a letter on July 26, 2007, recording Ms LeCroy's distinguished record of service over her 24-year career.

[edit] Education

Before joining the Foreign Service, Ms. LeCroy practiced banking and commercial law in Dallas, Texas, and managed the family agri-business in her native Mississippi. She is a graduate of the National War College, Boston University School of Law, and the University of Virginia, and has completed post-graduate work at Oxford University (Trinity College), University of London (King's College), University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Carleton University in Ottawa, and the Peace Palace at The Hague.

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