Sue Bremner

Susan Lenore Bremner (born 1954) is an American diplomat who served as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to Eritrea from July 2012 to April 2014.,[1][2][3] and Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to Chad during her tenure as Deputy chief of mission (DCM) from 2009 to 2011.[4] She was with the State Department for 30 years, serving in Asia, Europe and Africa.[5]

Sue Bremner as Chargé d’affaires to Eritrea
Sue Bremner during her tenure as Deputy chief of mission in N'Djamena, Chad.

Career

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Sue Bremner taught undergraduate English composition at University of California, Berkeley and Peking University in China before joining the U.S. Foreign Service in 1986, with her first overseas assignment in China. From 1990 to 1992, she worked as Desk Officer at the European Community Desk (now EU Desk), responsible for tracking European assistance to the former Soviet Union, and then served as Bosnia Desk Officer (1992-1994). In 1995, Bremner was seconded to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) as political section chief, Mission to Sarajevo following the Dayton Accords. From 1996 to 2000 She was posted to the United States Mission to NATO in Brussels, Belgium.[4]

From 2000 to 2004, Bremner served for four years as a political officer at the United States Embassy Paris, France, overseeing Franco-U.S. cooperation on European security and defense policy. From 2004 to 2006, She served as Political Unit Chief in the Office of Korean Affairs, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP/K), managing North Korea-United States relations and related policies, and also took part in the 2005 and 2006 Six-Party Talks in Beijing, China. From 2006 to 2008, Bremner was deputy director of the EAP Office of Taiwan Coordination (EAP/TC),[4] and served as acting EAP/TC director upon the promotion of her predecessor, Clifford Hart.[6] From February 2009, she was assigned to Ndjamena, Chad to serve as DCM and Charge d'affaires.[7] After July 2011, when her tenure in Chad ended, she left for Djibouti to act as Political Adviser to the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA). Since July 2012, she began her service as Charge d'affaires to Eritrea,[4] and ended her service in April 2014.[1]

She retired from the Foreign Service in 2019 and became the Labor Management adviser at the United States Agency for International Development.[8][9][10]

References
  1. "Susan Lenore Bremner (1954–)". Office of the Historian. Archived from the original on 2020-02-27. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  2. "Susan Lenore Bremner - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  3. TesfaNews (2014-05-27). "US Secretary John Kerry Congratulate Eritrea on National Day". TesfaNews. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  4. "SUE BREMNER Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State". Embassy of the United States, Asmara, Eritrea. Archived from the original on 2013-02-26. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  5. "The Foreign Service Journal" (PDF). American Foreign Service Association. May 24, 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 August 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  6. Lin Baoqing (林寶慶) (2007-10-12). "國務院台灣處處長 調升夏千福任海軍軍令部長辦公室顧問" [Promotion of EAP/TC Director: Clifford Hart was promoted to be the advisor at Chief of Naval Operations' Office] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). World Journal. p. A06.
  7. "SUE BREMNER Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State". Embassy of the United States, Ndjamena, Chad. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2020-10-08.
  8. Sue Bremner Joins AFSA Staff
  9. State. Department of State. 1994.
  10. State, United States Department of (1993). Newsletter.


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