Patricia M. Haslach
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Patricia M. Haslach is a career diplomat
with the U.S. Department of State. Since February 2011 she has served as the Iraq Transition coordinator. Immediately prior she was the Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy of the Department of State's Office of the Coordinator for the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative. Prior to this she was Coordinator for Assistance Transition at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Haslach is a Career Minister of the Senior Foreign Service
. She began her diplomatic career in 1986 as an agricultural attaché
with the Foreign Agricultural Service
, then transferred to the Department of State as an economic officer. She served as the Director, Office for Afghanistan, responsible for overseeing a multi-billion-dollar reconstruction program for Afghanistan. Prior to this, she served as the Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Her other foreign assignments have included service as the Agricultural Attaché in New Delhi, India; Political Officer in the U.S. Mission to the European Union, and Resource Officer in Lagos, Nigeria, and Jakarta, Indonesia. In 1997 Ms. Haslach received the Sinclaire Award for the study of a hard language. In 1999 she was selected as the winner of the Herbert Salzman Award for Excellence in International Economic Performance, and in 2002 she was awarded the Director General’s Award for Impact and Originality in Reporting.
She served as U.S. Ambassador to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic from May 2004 to May 2007. Haslach was appointed U.S. Senior Official for APEC, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, in June 2007. On April 29, 2008, she was confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to APEC.
Haslach was born in 1956 in Rockville Center, New York. She earned her BA in Political Science from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and a Master in International Affairs and Certificate on Western Europe from Columbia University, New York. Her languages are French, Italian and Indonesian.
Ms. Haslach has a keen interest in education, and she has actively served on the boards of the American schools in Lagos, Jakarta and Islamabad.
Diplomat
A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with another state or international organization. The main functions of diplomats revolve around the representation and protection of the interests and nationals of the sending state, as well as the promotion of information and...
with the U.S. Department of State. Since February 2011 she has served as the Iraq Transition coordinator. Immediately prior she was the Deputy Coordinator for Diplomacy of the Department of State's Office of the Coordinator for the Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative. Prior to this she was Coordinator for Assistance Transition at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Haslach is a Career Minister of the Senior Foreign Service
Senior Foreign Service
The Senior Foreign Service comprises the top four ranks of the United States Foreign Service. These ranks were created by the Foreign Service Act of 1980 and Executive Order 12293 in order to provide the Foreign Service with senior grades equivalent to general- and flag ranks in the military and...
. She began her diplomatic career in 1986 as an agricultural attaché
Agricultural attaché
An agricultural attaché is a diplomat who collects, analyzes, and acts on information on agriculture, agribusiness, food, and other related spheres in a foreign country or countries. Agricultural attachés may be directly employed by the sending country's agriculture ministry, or they may be...
with the Foreign Agricultural Service
Foreign Agricultural Service
The Foreign Agricultural Service is the foreign affairs agency with primary responsibility for the United States Department of Agriculture's overseas programs—market development, international trade agreements and negotiations, and the collection of statistics and market information...
, then transferred to the Department of State as an economic officer. She served as the Director, Office for Afghanistan, responsible for overseeing a multi-billion-dollar reconstruction program for Afghanistan. Prior to this, she served as the Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. Her other foreign assignments have included service as the Agricultural Attaché in New Delhi, India; Political Officer in the U.S. Mission to the European Union, and Resource Officer in Lagos, Nigeria, and Jakarta, Indonesia. In 1997 Ms. Haslach received the Sinclaire Award for the study of a hard language. In 1999 she was selected as the winner of the Herbert Salzman Award for Excellence in International Economic Performance, and in 2002 she was awarded the Director General’s Award for Impact and Originality in Reporting.
She served as U.S. Ambassador to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic from May 2004 to May 2007. Haslach was appointed U.S. Senior Official for APEC, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, in June 2007. On April 29, 2008, she was confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to APEC.
Haslach was born in 1956 in Rockville Center, New York. She earned her BA in Political Science from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and a Master in International Affairs and Certificate on Western Europe from Columbia University, New York. Her languages are French, Italian and Indonesian.
Ms. Haslach has a keen interest in education, and she has actively served on the boards of the American schools in Lagos, Jakarta and Islamabad.