Joyce Anne Barr

Joyce Anne Barr is an American diplomat and a career foreign service officer in the Department of State. She currently is an Assistant Secretary of State for Administration. Prior to that, Barr was the International Affairs Advisor at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. [1] Her previous assignment was as the Executive Director for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP) within the State Department.[2] She served as the ambassador to Namibia 2004–07.

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Education

Ambassador Barr received a B.A. in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University graduating Magna Cum Laude. She has also received a M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.S. in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Career

Ambassador Barr is a career diplomat having joined the Department of State in 1979. She has held assignments in Stockholm (1980), Budapest (1982), Nairobi (1985), Khartoum (1989), Ashgabat (1998), and Kuala Lumpur, where she was Counselor for Management Affairs.

Ambassador Barr has also had domestic assignments in Washington, D.C. She worked for the Department of State’s Bureau of Personnel, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and while Bureau of International Organizations in the U.S. Industrial Development Organization and the World Tourism Organization.

Ambassador Barr has also participated in the Department of State Domestic Assignment Program, also known as the Pearson Program. This program was begun in the 1970’s where Foreign Service officers are assigned outside the department in order to develop their knowledge of foreign affairs legislation and of public concerns. The program also permits a better public understanding of U.S. foreign policy. [3] As part of this assignment, she worked with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Congressman Bennie Thompson.

On December 17, 2011, the United States Senate confirmed Barr to be an assistant secretary of state.[4]

References

  1. ^ "International Affairs Advisor - Ambassador Joyce Anne Barr". Industrial College of the Armed Forces. http://www.ndu.edu/icaf/people/leadership/ambassador.htm. Retrieved August 20, 2011. 
  2. ^ "African American History Month: Joyce Barr". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on December 14, 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20081214084037/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/b/ocr/aahm/2008/99883.htm. Retrieved August 23, 2011. 
  3. ^ "Feature: the Pearson Program and U.S. foreign policy - State Department's Domestic Assignment Program". US Department of State Dispatch. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_n31_v4/ai_13267941. Retrieved August 22, 2011. 
  4. ^ http://www.senate.gov/galleries/pdcl/index.htm

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Kevin Joseph McGuire		 U.S. Ambassador to Namibia
2004–2007		 Succeeded by
Gail D. Mathieu

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document "U.S. Department of State: Biography of Joyce Anne Barr".