Villarosa, Shari, 1951-

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Sharon English Woods "Shari" Villarosa (born 1951) is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. She notably served as the United States Ambassador to Mauritius and to the Seychelles from 2012 to 2017.

Shari graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in International Studies. She also has a law degree from The College of William and Mary. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Indonesian.

On September 22, 2012, the United States Senate confirmed Villarosa to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Seychelles.

She served as the chargé d'affaires for the United States Embassy in Rangoon, Burma, from August 2005 to September 2008. At the time, there had not been a U.S. Ambassador to Burma since 1990, so as chargé d'affaires, Villarosa was the chief of mission and the most senior official in the embassy.

She previously served as Director of Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore Affairs in the Department of State's East Asia and Pacific Bureau, Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Dili, East Timor.

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Place Name Admin Code Country
Yangon 17 MM
District of Columbia DC US
Port Louis 18 MU
Jakarta 04 ID
Honolulu HI US
Brasília 07 BR
Bogotá 34 CO
Quito 18 EC
Dili DI TL
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Birth 1951

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Americans

Indonesian,

English,

Spanish; Castilian,

Portuguese,

Thai

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