Obama nominates Sison to top UN Security Council
July 9, 2014 09:01 am
President
of the United States, Barack Obama Tuesday announced his intent to nominate the
U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives to represent the U.S. in the United
Nations Security Council.
The
Whitehouse announced that the President Obama intends to nominate Ambassador
Michele Jeanne Sison as the Deputy Representative of the United States to the
United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, and Deputy Representative of the
United States in the Security Council of the United Nations.
Ambassador
Michele Jeanne Sison, a career member of the Foreign Service, Class of
Career-Minister, is the U.S. Ambassador to the Democratic Socialist Republic of
Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives, a position she has held since
2012. From 2011 to 2012, Ambassador
Sison was Assistant Chief of Mission in Baghdad, Iraq. From 2008 to 2010, Ambassador Sison served as
Ambassador to the Republic of Lebanon, and from 2004 to 2008, as Ambassador to
the United Arab Emirates. Ambassador
Sison served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of South
Asian Affairs at the Department of State from 2002 to 2004. Ambassador Sison previously served as Deputy
Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan; Consul General in
Chennai, India; Consul General in Douala, Cameroon; and Director of Career
Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources at the Department
of State. She also held positions at the
U.S. Embassies in Côte d’Ivoire, Benin, Togo, and Haiti. Ambassador Sison received a B.A. from
Wellesley College.
