Ambassador Kathleen A. Doherty

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Written By Justin Hobbs

Last Name: Doherty

First Name: Kathleen

Middle Name: Ann

Medals and Honors:

  • U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Awards (Multiple)

  • State Department Rockwell Schnable Award for Improving US-EU Relations

ACNSL Offices and Committees:

  • Diplomatic Readiness Committee

  • Environmental and Arctic Security Committee

Rank: Ambassador

Service/Department: U.S. Department of State

Last or Significant Assignment: Ambassador to the Republic of Cyprus

Areas of Experience:

  • EUCOM

  • Europe and the E.U.

  • Turkey

  • International Relations and Diplomacy

  • Treaties and Negotiations

  • International Trade and Sanctions

  • Domestic Terrorism

Articles, Books and Publications:

  • https://www.justsecurity.org/75157/chinas-military-tech-ambitions-whats-the-u-s-eu-gameplan/

Kathleen Doherty served as U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Kathleen Doherty, from 2015-2019.  Following her assignment, she was a Dean at the Foreign Service Institute of the Department of State.

 Kathleen Doherty, a member of the Senior Foreign Service, served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Rome between September 2013 and September 2015, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she had responsibility for managing relations with the European Union and Western Europe. Prior to that, she was the Director for the Office of European Union and Regional Affairs.

Prior to returning to Washington D.C. in 2010, she was Counselor for Economic Affairs in the U.S. Embassy in London. Her other overseas assignments include Economic Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Economic Officer in the U.S. Embassy in Rome and in the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo, and Consular Officer in the Dominican Republic. In the Department of State, she has worked as a senior watch officer in the 24-hours Operations Center, as a Special Assistant to then Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, and in the Offices of Investment Affairs and Development Finance in the Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Bureau.

 Ambassador Doherty speaks Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and received one of the Department’s highest honors for her work on U.S.-EU relations. She has a Masters of Science from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Colgate University. She was named a Fellow of the American College of National Security Leaders in 2024.

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