Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick

Barbro Appelquist Owens-Kirkpatrick (born December 25, 1946 in Helsinki ) is an American diplomat .

Life

Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick holds a BA in Economics from Helsinki Business School and an MSc in Public Administration from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School .

She entered the service of the United States Department of State , for which she supported the 82nd Airborne Division in the US invasion of Grenada as a diplomat in 1983 . From 1986 to 1988 Owens-Kirkpatrick worked as a diplomat at the US Embassy in El Salvador . She also served as the Deputy Head of the US Embassy in Barbados and as Special Assistant to the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations . In 1989 she graduated from the United States Army War College .

Owens-Kirkpatrick held various managerial positions in the 1990s. From 1992 to 1993 she was Deputy Director of the Office for International Security Operations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dealing with the Bosnian War and the Somali Civil War, among other things . She served with the United States National Security Council from 1993 to 1994 as director of inter-American affairs. Her focus was on Cuba , the crisis in Haiti ( Operation Uphold Democracy ) and Central and South America . Owens-Kirkpatrick then worked from 1994 to 1997 as a diplomat at the US Embassy in Mexico , during the democratic reforms of President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León and the beginning Chiapas conflict . From 1997 to 1998 she headed the US State Department's European Security and Politics Bureau. She was responsible for NATO's eastward expansion , dealing with the Kosovo conflict and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of NATO .

Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick became the United States Ambassador to Niger in 1999 . In the run-up to the Plame affair , she described the false rumors that Niger had supplied Yellowcake from its uranium mines to Iraq as highly unlikely in an internal report. Her tenure as ambassador ended in 2002.

Owens-Kirkpatrick is married to Alexander Kirkpatrick, a US State Department employee. The couple have two children.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Biography Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick. Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, February 20, 2002, accessed April 3, 2017 .
↑ ^a ^b Barbro Appelquist Owens-Kirkpatrick (1946–). Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, accessed April 3, 2017 .
^ Robert Kennedy: Of Knowledge and Power. The Complexities of National Intelligence . Praeger Security International, Westport, Connecticut / London 2008, ISBN 978-0-275-99443-3 , pp. 99 .

personal data
SURNAME	Owens-Kirkpatrick, Barbro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Owens-Kirkpatrick, Barbro Appelquist (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Helsinki

[Electronic-1] A ^b Biography Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick. Office of Electronic Information, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, February 20, 2002, accessed April 3, 2017 .

[Historian-2] Barbro Appelquist Owens-Kirkpatrick (1946–). Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, accessed April 3, 2017 .

[3] Robert Kennedy: Of Knowledge and Power. The Complexities of National Intelligence . Praeger Security International, Westport, Connecticut / London 2008, ISBN 978-0-275-99443-3 , pp. 99 .