US President Barack Obama nominated Maureen Elizabeth Cormack for Ambassador to B&H, announced on the website of the White House.
Biography:
Maureen Elizabeth Cormack, a career member of the Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor is the Principal Deputy Coordinator of the Bureau of International Information Programs at the Department of State (DOS), a position she has held since June 2011. She was Executive Assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs from 2010 to 2011. Ms. Cormack also served as the Director of the Office of Western European Affairs from 2009 to 2010 and as the Deputy Director for Korean Affairs from 2006 to 2009. She was a Pearson Fellow on the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2006. Ms. Cormack has served overseas in various capacities, including as Press Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea, as Deputy Cultural Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, and as the First Consul at the American Presence Post in western France. Ms. Cormack joined the Foreign Service in 1989 and in early assignments served as Director of the American Centers in Kwangju, South Korea and Warsaw, Poland. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, from 1980 to 1985, Ms. Cormack worked for the Ravinia Festival, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Cormack received a B.A. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.
Her nomination was sent to the Senate, which is expected to confirm the appointment.
Former Ambassador Patrick Moon left B&H on 24 August, and since then the Charge d’Affaires Nicholas Hill has been performing the former Ambassador’s duties.
(Source: Fena)
