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| Name | D. Kathleen Stephens |
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| Info | Kathleen Stephens was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 1, 2008 to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Korea. She arrived in Korea on September 23, 2008, and presented her credentials to President Lee Myung-bak on October 6, 2008.
A Foreign Service officer since 1978, Ambassador Stephens has held numerous senior diplomatic positions in Washington and abroad. From 2005 to 2007, Ambassador Stephens was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. She was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2003 to 2005, where she focused on post-conflict and stabilization issues in the Balkans. Other Washington assignments included Director for European Affairs at the National Security Council, Senior United Kingdom Country Officer in the European Bureau, and Director of the State Department’s Office of Ecology and Terrestrial Conservation in the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Scientific Affairs.
Ambassador Stephens’ overseas postings have included Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal (1998-2001), and U.S. Consul General in Belfast, Northern Ireland (1995-1998) during the consolidation of ceasefires and negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement. Earlier foreign assignments included consular and public affairs officer in Guangzhou, China (1980-1982), chief of the internal political unit in Seoul (1984-1987), and principal officer of the U.S. Consulate in Busan, Korea (1987-1989). Ambassador Stephens was a political officer at the U.S. mission in Yugoslavia during that country’s violent disintegration in the early ‘90s.
Ambassador Stephens was born in El Paso, Texas and grew up in New Mexico and Arizona. She has longstanding family ties to Montana. She holds a B.A. (Honors) in East Asian studies from Prescott College and a master’s degree from Harvard University. Ambassador Stephens also studied at the University of Hong Kong. She holds honorary doctoral degrees from Chungnam National University and the University of Maryland. She is a 2009 recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Service Award and numerous State Department awards throughout her career. Ambassador Stephens was a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea from 1975 to 1977. Her foreign languages are Korean, Serbian and Chinese. She has one son, an electrical engineer.
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