Maureen Cormack

Maureen Cormack
United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
Assumed office
January 16, 2015
President Barack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded by Patrick Moon
Personal details
Born 1957 (age 60–61)
Alma mater University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
University of Chicago

Maureen Elizabeth Cormack (born 1957) is an American diplomat and the United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

Education and early career

Cormack received her B.A. in performing arts management from the University of Illinois. She worked for a Chicago law firm and the Ravinia Festival, an outdoor music series near Chicago, in fundraising, public relations, and artistic management.[1] Her personal love of the arts continues today, and much of her career in the Foreign Service has been spent in public and cultural affairs. In an interview in Bosnia, she said "I am a fan of the symphony, the opera and the ballet," which, in Sarajevo, she enjoys at the restored National Theater.[2] She then attended the University of Chicago, earning an M.A. in international relations in 1989.

Ambassador Cormack joined the Foreign Service in 1989, and in early assignments served as Director of the American Centers in Kwangju, South Korea and Warsaw, Poland. She then served as Deputy Cultural Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, and as Consul at the American Presence Post (APP) in western France.[3]

Washington, D.C.

In 2005, Ambassador Cormack returned to Washington, DC and became a Pearson Fellow, working on Capitol Hill. The Pearson Fellowships give Foreign Service officers the chance to spend a year learning about the work of Congress. Cormack worked with the House Homeland Security Committee. In 2006, Cormack moved back to the State Department and became deputy director for Korean Affairs, where she served until 2009.

Towards the end of her tenure, she helped deal with the arrest of two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, by North Korea, who were eventually freed.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

On January 6, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Maureen Cormack, a career Foreign Service officer, as ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Straehley, Steve (31 May 2014). "Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina: Who Is Maureen Cormack?". Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Diplomatic Voices: BiH Through the Eyes of a New Yorker". Balkanvibe. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
  3. ↑ "Cormack, Maureen". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Patrick Moon		 United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina
2015–present		 Incumbent


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