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| Affiliation | Nonpartisan |
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| Name | Aurelia E. Brazeal |
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, Georgia , United States |
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| Born |
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(81 years)
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| Contributor | Ben |
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| Info | Ambassador Aurelia E. Brazeal is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Career Minister. She assumed her position as U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia in November 2002. Prior to this posting, she served as Dean of the Senior Seminar from 1998-2002. She concurrently served as the first dean of the new Leadership and Management School at the Department of State Foreign Service Institute from 1999-2002.
Ambassador Brazeal served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific from August 1996 to August 1998. In this position she had policy responsibility for 22 countries, including Thailand, Burma, Laos, Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and the 12 Pacific Island nations. She was also responsible for policy toward the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) as an organization and the ASEAN Regional Forum, the premier security/political body for Southeast Asia.
Prior to that assignment Ambassador Brazeal was the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya from 1993 to 1996. She was the first U.S. Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia from 1990 to 1993. Prior to that appointment she was Minister – Counselor for Economics at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, the number three position in the Embassy.
Additional assignments included Buenos Aires, Argentina; a tour in the Economic Bureau; a tour in the State Department Operations Center; a tour in the State Department Secretariat; desk officer responsible for Paraguay and Uruguay; economic training at the Foreign Service Institute; a detail to the secretariat of the Treasury Department; assignment to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo as trade officer; assignment to the Office of Development Finance in the Economic Affairs Bureau; and Deputy Director for Economics in the Japan office.
Ambassador Brazeal is the first African American woman career foreign service officer to be promoted into the Senior Foreign Service of the United States. Her current personal rank of Career Minister is the second highest in the United States Foreign Service. In the course of her career Ambassador Brazeal has received several honor awards, including Superior Honor Awards, Performance Pay Awards and a Presidential Performance Award. She is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.
Ambassador Brazeal is from Atlanta, Georgia and received her Bachelor’s Degree magna cum laude from Spelman College in Atlanta and, later, was awarded an Honorary Doctorate. She earned her Masters degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. She undertook additional post-graduate study at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She served two terms on the Spelman College Board of Trustees and served on the selection panel for the Woodrow Wilson National Foreign Affairs Fellowship program. She served on the Advisory Boards for the Morehouse College Andrew Young Center for International Affairs, and the Institute for International Public Policy, which addresses the lack of diversity in the Foreign Service. She was invited to join the Council of Foreign Relations in 2001.
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