Frankie A. Reed

Frankie Annette Reed (born 1954, Baltimore)[1] is an American diplomat. She is currently the United States Consul-General in Melbourne. From 2011 to 2015 she was the United States Ambassador to Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga, and Tuvalu.[2] She has a BA in journalism from Howard University and a doctorate in law from the University of California, Berkeley.

Frankie Reed
United States Ambassador to Fiji
In office
August 3, 2011  January 5, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Kiribati
In office
August 3, 2011  January 5, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Nauru
In office
August 3, 2011  January 5, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Tonga
In office
August 3, 2011  January 5, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
United States Ambassador to Tuvalu
In office
August 3, 2011  January 5, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byC. Steven McGann
Succeeded byJudith Beth Cefkin
Personal details
Born1954 (age 6869)
OccupationDiplomat

Before her appointment as ambassador, Reed was a deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, responsible for relations with Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. She was previously a lecturer and diplomat-in-residence at the University of California at Berkeley.[3]

Career

Reed was deputy chief of mission in Apia, Samoa, from 1999 to 2002, and then in Conakry, Guinea from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008 she was consul general and deputy U.S. observer to the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.

She has also been deputy director in the Office of Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island Affairs, political section chief in Dakar, Senegal and a political officer in Nairobi, Kenya and in Yaounde, Cameroon.Frankie A. Reed arrived in Melbourne in March 2015 to assume the position of Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General Melbourne.

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