Joyce Anne Barr

Joyce Anne Barr is the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia.

Education

Ambassador Barr received a B.A. in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran Universitygraduating Magna Cum Laude. She has also received a M.P.A. from Harvard University and an M.S. in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Career

Ambassador Barr is a career diplomat having joined the Department of State in 1979. She has held assignments in Stockholm (1980), Budapest (1982), Nairobi (1985), Khartoum (1989), Ashgabat (1998, and Kuala Lumpur, where she was Counselor for Management Affairs in [Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ambassador Barr has also had domestic assignments in Washington, D.C. She worked for the Department of State’s Bureau of Personnel, Bureau of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and while Bureau of International Organizations in the U.S. Industrial Development Organization and the World Tourism Organization.

Ambassador Barr has also participated in the Department of State Domestic Assignment Program, also known as the Pearson Program. This program was begun in the 1970’s where Foreign Service officers are assigned outside the department in order to develop their knowledge of foreign affairs legislation and of public concerns. The program also permits a better public understanding of U.S. foreign policy. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_n31_v4/ai_13267941 Feature: the Pearson Program and U.S. foreign policy - State Department's Domestic Assignment Program | US Department of State Dispatch | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] As part of this assignment, she worked with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Congressman Bennie Thompson.

Later, Ambassador Barr worked in the Department of State Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs and served as a Senior Watch officer in the Department of State’s crisis center. Ambassador Barr assumed her official duties in Namibia on November 27, 2004.

References

External links

http://windhoek.usembassy.gov/bio.html