Anne W. Patterson

Anne Woods Patterson ( born 1949 in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is an American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador to Egypt since 2011.

Biography

After studying at Wellesley College, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), she completed a post-graduate studies at the University of North Carolina, where she graduated with a Master of Arts (MA). She then joined the diplomatic service in 1973 ( Foreign Service ) a.

From 1984 to 1988 she was the first -Counselor for Economic Affairs at the Embassy in Saudi Arabia and then to 1991 Counselor for Political Affairs at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva. In 1991, she was Director for the Andean countries at the Foreign Ministry and was then between 1993 and 1996 Deputy Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State ( Deputy Assistant Secretary ) for Inter-American Affairs.

From 1997 to 2000 she was the first ambassador of the United States in El Salvador and then to 2003 in Colombia. Upon her return to Washington, D.C. she was from 2003 to 2004 Deputy Inspector General of the Foreign Ministry. In 2005, she was for some time. Acting in function Ambassador of the United States at the United Nations After that, she was assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State ( Assistant Secretary of State ) International Drug Control and Law Enforcement.

From 2007 to 2010, Ambassador Patterson in Pakistan.

On 20 May 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that he would propose to Patterson 's ambassador to Egypt. June 30, 2011 Patterson was elected unanimously by the Senate of the United States Ambassador to Egypt. Patterson's close contacts with high-ranking representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood or dominated by these Freedom and Justice Party, which after the Revolution of 2011 took over the political power in Egypt, was the occasion for protest from the ranks of the secular Egyptian opposition. Criticism, however, was also due to interference in opposition labor loud ( so by Hamdin Sabahi ). Other voices kept Patterson's activities, although questionable, but also criticized a tendency to exaggeration in the secular opposition. Patterson directed against posters and similar expressions were also part of anti-American protests in Egypt, which in turn are part of a larger protest movement against the government.