Campbell, Piper Anne Wind, 1965-
<p>Piper Campbell is CEO of Campbell Wind, LLC a boutique consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., through which she partners with larger consulting firms and clients seeking global business strategy advice. Ambassador Campbell retired with the rank of Minister Counselor in April 2019, after a thirty-year diplomatic career. Having served as Head of the U.S. Mission to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Ambassador to Mongolia, Ambassador Campbell’s areas of expertise include East Asia and navigating multilateral organizations, particularly the UN system.</p>
<p>Ambassador Campbell led the U.S. Mission to ASEAN based in Jakarta from June – December 2018. In that capacity, she served as “Senior Official” in formal sessions of the East Asia Summit, ASEAN Regional Forum and the Lower Mekong Initiative. She negotiated U.S.-ASEAN and multilateral statements and supported the Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. Leading a multi-agency team involved wide-ranging activities from securing agreement with ASEAN Defense Ministers on holding the first U.S.-ASEAN military exercise to opening a summit of Young South East Asian entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>Ambassador Campbell served as Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Ulaanbaatar from 2012-2015, in which capacity she supported negotiations on the development of Mongolia’s extractive industries and agreement on a $350 million U.S.-Mongolia Millennium Challenge Compact.</p>
<p>In 2017-208, Ambassador Campbell led an internal State Department effort to reform and improve its management and human resource systems. She concurrently ran the Department’s Office for the recruitment and examination of Foreign Service Officers, as well as internship and Fellowship programs. She was an Assistant Professor for National Security Studies at the National Defense University from 2015-2017, designing a regional studies program and leading student groups to China and Indonesia.</p>
<p>Before her nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia, she was Consul General in Basrah, Iraq (2011-2012) and Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State Jacob J. Lew (2009-2010) and subsequently Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides (2010-2011). Earlier, she worked in the Philippines; provided support to the three U.S. missions in Brussels, Belgium (USNATO, USEU and Bilateral); and served in the State Department’s Operations Center and Bureau of International Organizations. She worked on international security and humanitarian issues, with a focus on Asia, at the U.S. Missions to the United Nations in both New York and Geneva and served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Cambodia. She has been seconded at various times to the Department of Defense, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and a United Nations Peacekeeping Operation in the Balkans.</p>
<p>Ambassador Campbell holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service with a certificate in Asian studies. She has an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and an honorary MS in International Strategic Studies from the National War College. Her awards include the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Meritorious Civilian Service Award and multiple Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards from the Department of State.</p>
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<p>Piper Anne Wind Campbell (born 1965) is an American diplomat. She was the 9th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia. As of June 2018, she is the Chargé d'affaires ad interim at the United States Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.</p>
<p>Campbell was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1965, the daughter of Gay and David N. Campbell. She attended Nichols School in Buffalo and was inspired to pursue a career in the Foreign Service after a study abroad program in Japan. She obtained a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1988 and joined the Foreign Service in 1989.</p>
<p>Campbell's early assignments included Manila, Brussels, the State Department's Operations Center in Washington, DC, and the Department's Bureau of International Organization Affairs. In 1996 she joined the civil affairs section of a United Nations peacekeeping mission in eastern Croatia and helped open an office of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia.</p>
<p>In 1999 Campbell took a year's leave to pursue a master's degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.</p>
<p>Campbell went on to work at the U.S. Missions to the United Nations in New York (1999-2002) and Geneva (2002-2006). From 2006 to 2009 she was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Phnom Penh, Cambodia where she spent almost five months as chargé d'affaires ad interim from August 25, 2008, to January 19, 2009. She then became Chief of Staff to the first-ever Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Jacob J. Lew (who later became Treasury Secretary), and his successor Thomas R. Nides. From June 2011-June 2012, Campbell served as the senior civilian representative of the U.S. government in southern Iraq, opening Consulate General Basra on July 5, 2011.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama nominated Campbell as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia on March 5. 2012 and the U.S. Senate confirmed her on June 29, 2012. She was sworn in on August 6, 2012 and presented her credentials to President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj on August 24, 2012.</p>
<p>Campbell characterized her tenure in Mongolia as "steering the U.S. government interaction with Mongolia, driving that relationship through a change, a transition." She has stated that there were three main areas upon which she wanted to strengthen ties between the U.S. and Mongolia; broadening commercial development, military and development cooperation, and cultural cooperation.</p>
<p>Campbell's tour in Mongolia ended in 2015. She then served as an assistant professor for National Security Studies at the National War College until 2017. After that she was put in charge of the recruitment and examination of new Foreign Service Officers plus some other internal State Department programs until 2018.</p>