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Jessica LeCroy |
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Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance
2004 Fall Luncheon
Monday, November 8, 2004
Toronto
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Jessica LeCroy arrives in Toronto as Consul General after
serving on detail assignments outside the Department of State
for two years as National Security Advisor to the Secretary
of the Treasury, and a year in Baghdad as Executive Officer
to the Administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA) and Director of the CPA Executive Secretariat.
A career Foreign Service Officer, Ms. LeCroy's overseas assignments
have included Tbilisi, Georgia, where she assisted in opening
the U.S. embassy after the fall of the former Soviet Union
and served in various positions from Charge d'Affaires to
political and economic head of sections; Bosnia as a political
officer, where she concentrated on media and elections issues;
The Netherlands, as an administrative officer; and Nicaragua,
as a consular and human rights officer.
Ms LeCroy's domestic assignments in the Department of State
include service as Senior United Kingdom desk officer, Senior
Watch Officer in the Department's Operations Centre, head
of the U.S. telecommunications delegation to COCOM on the
transfer of sensitive technology to the then-Soviet Union,
and Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs and Policy in
the Office of the Ambassador at Large for Counter-Terrorism.
Ms. LeCroy was awarded a Salzburg Fellowship in international
arbitration and an American Political Science Association
Congressional Fellowship, where she worked as Senior Legislative
Assistant for Trade and Foreign Policy for Senator Bill Bradley
(NJ). She is the recipient of several State Department Superior
and Meritorious Honor Awards, as well as the Matilda Sinclaire
Award for achievement in a difficult language (Georgian).
Her foreign language studies include Spanish, French, German,
Russian and Georgian.
Before joining the Foreign Service, Ms. LeCroy practiced
banking and commercial law in Dallas, Texas, and London and
managed the family agri-business in her native Mississippi.
She is a graduate of the National War College, Boston University
School of Law, and the University of Virginia, and has completed
post-graduate work at Oxford University (Trinity College),
University of London (King's College), University of Virginia,
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Carleton
University in Ottawa, and the Peace Palace at The Hague.
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