Erin Elizabeth McKee is an American diplomat who is the current assistant administrator of the United States Agency for International Development for Europe and Eurasia. She served as the United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu from 2019 to 2022.[1]
Erin Elizabeth McKee | |
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 Official portrait, 2022 | |
| Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development for Europe and Eurasia | |
Incumbent | |
| Assumed office April 29, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Brock Bierman |
| United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea United States Ambassador to Vanuatu | |
| In office November 27, 2019 – April 14, 2022 | |
| President | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Catherine Ebert-Gray |
| Succeeded by | Joe Zadrozny (acting) |
| United States Ambassador to the Solomon Islands | |
| In office January 27, 2020 – April 14, 2022 | |
| President | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Catherine Ebert-Gray |
| Personal details | |
| Education | University of California, Davis (B.A.) University of Washington (M.A.) |
Early life and education
editMcKee is from California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Davis, and an Master of Arts from University of Washington. She speaks Russian, Spanish, and Indonesian.[2]
Career
editMcKee early in her career worked for Morrison Knudsen, Inc.'s international mining division in the former Soviet Union. She then served as general manager and then executive director for Capital Investment Group's (CIG) Russia operations.[3]
McKee joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1995. McKee then served at USAID Missions in Kazakhstan, Iraq, Peru, Bolivia, Israel, and Russia. She later became Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator and Chief Human Capital Officer in the USAID Office of Human Capital and Talent Management, and Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Policy, Planning, and Learning at USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C. Before becoming ambassador, McKee was Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Indonesia.
Personal
editMcKee is married and has a child.[3] She speaks Russian, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia.
See also
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References
edit- ^ "PN796 - Nomination of Erin Elizabeth McKee for Department of State, 116th Congress (2019-2020)". www.congress.gov. 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2019-11-14.
- ^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Individuals to Key Administration Posts," The White House, May 16, 2019
- ^ a b "US AID, "Erin McKee" bio". Archived from the original on 2019-08-14. Retrieved 2019-10-31.