Susan S. Jacobs is the first person to fill the newly created role of Special Advisor for International Children's Issues

Special Advisor for International Children's Issues

The Special Advisor for International Children's Issues is a foreign policy position created by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and announced on July 1, 2010. Susan S...

. This new foreign policy position and assignment for Jacobs was created by Secretary of State

Secretary of State

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 Hillary Clinton and announced on July 1, 2010.

Jacobs has previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of State's Bureau of Consular Affairs

Bureau of Consular Affairs

The Bureau of Consular Affairs is a bureau of the United States Department of State within that department's management office. The mission of the Bureau is to administer laws, formulate regulations and implement policies relating to the broad range of consular services and immigration. , the...

. A former U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea

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, the Solomon Islands

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 and Vanuatu

Vanuatu

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, she also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Issues in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs

Bureau of Legislative Affairs

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. Her Foreign Service career has also included tours in Caracas

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, Tel Aviv

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, New Delhi

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, Bucharest

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, and San Salvador

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.

Jacobs graduated from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 and later studied at Georgetown University Law School and the George Washington University

George Washington University

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. She has received the Department of State's Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, and the U.S. Embassy New Delhi’s Community Achievement Award.

See also

• International child abduction in the United States
  International child abduction in the United States
  As a result of its high level of immigration and emigration and its status as common source and destination for a large amount of international travel the United States has more incoming and outgoing international child abductions per year than any other country...
  
  
• Office of Children's Issues
  Office of Children's Issues
  The Office of Children's Issues is an agency of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, which in turn is part of the US Department of State. The Office of Children’s Issues was created in 1994 under the leadership of Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mary Ryan and that of her successor...