Pamela Jo Howell Slutz is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service

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 currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi. From 2006 to 2009, she was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi

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, Kenya

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. And from 2003 to 2006 she served as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia.

Career

Pamela Slutz grew up in the Foreign Service; her father was a Foreign Service Officer. From the age of 7 to 15, she lived in Thailand.

After entering the Foreign Service, she served in various positions as a political officer in Shanghai

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, Jakarta

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 and Kinshasa

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 and then in the Bureau of Political Military Affairs and as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Talks with the USSR (1987–1989).

From 1995 to 1997 she was deputy director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs (1995–1997) at the State Department. Between 1997 and 1999 she was director of the Office of Regional and Security Policy in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs then served as chief of the political section in Jakarta from 1999 to 2001.

She was Deputy Director of the American Institute in Taiwan

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, Taipei

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 from 2001 to 2003 before being tapped to be the U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia.

As Ambassador, Slutz hosted the first-ever visits to Mongolia by a sitting president and first lady, a secretary of defense, and a speaker of the House — and the second-ever visit by a secretary of state. She was also instrumental in channeling assistance to the first-ever
shelter for abused women in Ulaanbaatar.

On November 5, 2009, President Barack Obama

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 announced his intent to nominate Pamela J. H. Slutz as Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi http://allafrica.com/stories/200906120659.html

Education

Pamela Slutz is a graduate of Hollins University

Hollins University

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 (BA) (1970). She also holds an MA in Asian Studies, specialization in Indonesian studies, (1972) from University of Hawaii

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/East-West Center(MA). Alumna 1958-1964 International School Bangkok

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