Tracey Ann Jacobson new US envoy

Tracey Ann Jacobson, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service in the US, will join the US Embassy in Dhaka as Chargé d'Affaires (CDA), ad interim, tomorrow (Saturday).

Over the course of her distinguished career, she has served as US Ambassador three times - to Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kosovo, said a spokesperson for the US Embassy in Dhaka.

Most recently, Ambassador Jacobson served as a Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.

Prior to that assignment, she served as CDA at the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

In addition to her senior leadership roles overseas, Ambassador Jacobson helped to shape the future of the Foreign Service as dean of the School of Professional and Area Studies and then as deputy director of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center.

Among Ambassador Jacobson's other roles, she has served as Deputy Executive Secretary and Senior Director for Administration for the National Security Council in Washington DC and as Deputy Ambassador at the US Embassy, in Riga, Latvia.

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