- Shari Villarosa
Shari Villarosa is the
Charge d'Affaires for the United States Embassy inRangoon , since August 2005. Since there has not been a US Ambassador toBurma since 1990, as the Chargé d'Affaires she is the chief of mission and the most senior official in the Embassy.She previously served as Director of
Philippines ,Malaysia ,Brunei ,Singapore Affairs in the Department of State's East Asia and Pacific Bureau, Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy inJakarta ,Indonesia and Chargé d'Affaires of the US Embassy inDili ,East Timor .Her other overseas assignments have been in
Songkhla ,Thailand ;Brasilia ,Brazil ;Quito ,Ecuador ; andBogotá ,Colombia . Her assignments at the State Department in Washington have been as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs; Deputy Director of the Office of Burma,Cambodia ,Laos , Thailand and Vietnam Affairs; Singapore and Indonesia desk officer; and in the Office of Investment Affairs. In addition, she spent a year at theEast-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii as Diplomat-in-Residence.Shari graduated from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in International Studies. She also has a law degree fromThe College of William and Mary . She speaks Spanish, Portuguese,Thai , and Indonesian.External links
*http://burma.usembassy.gov/ambassador.html
* http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10404.htmReferences
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