Jennifer Ward (diplomat)

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Jennifer Claudette Ward (born January 29, 1944 in Worcestershire ) is an American diplomat and university professor .

Life

Jennifer Ward studied history at Vassar College , where she became a member of Phi Beta Kappa . She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 . She then studied history at the University of California, Los Angeles , from which she graduated with a Master of Arts .

Ward worked for the education organization Education and World Affairs in New York City from 1968 to 1971 . She then worked until 1973 at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York , where she taught social sciences and was assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs. From 1975 to 1978 she served as director of college admissions, assistant director of the graduate program and lecturer on public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs . In 1976 she did a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jennifer Ward served as Human Resources Director of the Africa Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Affairs for the House of Representatives from 1978 to 1979 . In 1979 she worked as a security advisor for Africa in the Ministry of Defense . In the same year she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . There she initially worked as the Vice Director of the Office for Inter-African Affairs of the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs . In 1981, Ward became Counselor at the United States Embassy in Kinshasa , Zaire . She then held various management positions in the State Department in Washington, DC from 1983 . She also became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank .

From 1986 to 1989 she was Deputy Head of the US Embassy in Dakar , Senegal . She was then from 1989 to 1991 Counselor for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Kingston , Jamaica . In 1991, Jennifer Ward succeeded Carl Cundiff as the United States' Ambassador to Niamey , Niger . She was the first woman in this role. In 1993 she was replaced by John Davison .

Ward worked from 1999 at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University . There she was Vice Dean of Programs and Studies and Director of the Georgetown Leadership Seminar. She also obtained a certificate from this university to teach English as a second language . She then did so at Georgetown University, the Catholic University of America , Johns Hopkins University and Montgomery College . She also taught English for academic purposes at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University and taught a graduate writing course at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Board of Directors. Pact archived from the original on March 28, 2007 ; accessed on January 20, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e George Bush: Nomination of Jennifer C. Ward To Be United States Ambassador to Niger. In: The American Presidency Project. February 20, 1991, accessed January 20, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Ward, Jennifer. Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University, archived from the original on January 21, 2018 ; accessed on January 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Chiefs of Mission for Niger. Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, accessed January 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ward, Jennifer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ward, Jennifer Claudette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcestershire