US President Joe Biden has just appointed Elizabeth Moore Aubin as US Ambassador to Algeria, according to the White House press release dated April 15, 2021.
She is none other than the former Deputy Head of Mission to the US Embassy in Algiers, from 2011 to 2014.
From then January 2021, Elizabeth Moore Aubin was Acting Principal Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs (NEA).
She is also an elected member of the Board of Directors of Executive Women at State (EW @ S). From August to December 2020, she was a senior advisor to the NEA. Previously, she was the Executive Director of the Joint Executive Office of the Offices of Near Eastern Affairs and South and Central Asian Affairs, providing policy guidance, advice, and planning for the management of 45 diplomatic posts on a budget. of $ 2.5 billion. In May 2016, she became Deputy Chef de Mission, then Chargé d’affaires in Ottawa, Canada.
From 2014 to 2016, she was Executive Director of the Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs. From 2011 to 2014, she served as Deputy Head of Mission at the United States Embassy in Algiers, leading the team that won the Department’s Commercial Advocacy Award in 2013. Internally, Elizabeth Moore Aubin also served as Special Assistant to the Under-Secretary for Management as a Post Management Officer in the Western Hemisphere Affairs Branch…
Abroad, she was also responsible for the management of international resources for Usnato in Brussels; Management Officer at the Toronto Consulate General and General Service Officer at the Hong Kong Consulate General. His beginnings in diplomacy were made at the Embassy of Rome (Italy) and at the Consulate General of Curaçao (Caribbean). Elizabeth Moore Aubin holds the rank of Minister-Counselor.
She has a BA in Political Science from Barnard College (1987). She took graduate courses in international relations at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University (New York). She is fluent in French and Italian. And she is the author of a book on Algerian heritage published in France. A good omen.
