Frankie Reed

Frankie Reed
United States Ambassador to Fiji
In office August 3, 2011 – January 5, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	C. Steven McGann
Succeeded by	Judith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Kiribati
In office August 3, 2011 – January 5, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	C. Steven McGann
Succeeded by	Judith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Nauru
In office August 3, 2011 – January 5, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	C. Steven McGann
Succeeded by	Judith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Tonga
In office August 3, 2011 – January 5, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	C. Steven McGann
Succeeded by	Judith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Tuvalu
In office August 3, 2011 – January 5, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	C. Steven McGann
Succeeded by	Judith Beth Cefkin
Personal details
Born	1954 (age 62–63)
Occupation	Diplomat

Frankie Annette Reed (born 1954)^[1] is an American diplomat. She is currently the United States Consul to Melbourne. From 2011-2015 she was the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu.^[2] She has a BA in journalism from Howard University and a doctorate in law from the University of California, Berkeley.

Before her appointment as ambassador, Reed was a deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, responsible for relations with Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. She was previously a lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley.^[3]

Career

Reed was deputy chief of mission in Apia, Samoa, from 1999 to 2002, and then in Conakry, Guinea from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008 she was consul general and deputy U.S. observer to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

She has also been deputy director in the Office of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island Affairs, political section chief in Dakar, Senegal and a political officer in Nairobi, Kenya and in Yaounde, Cameroon.Frankie A. Reed arrived in Melbourne in March 2015 to assume the position of Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General Melbourne.

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of State document "Biography:Frankie Reed".

External links

• OFFICIAL US embassy bio

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