Pasi, Geeta, 1962-

<p>A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Geeta Pasi received her first-ever nomination to serve as ambassador—to the small but strategically-located East African nation of Djibouti—in April 2011.</p>

<p>Originally from New York State, Pasi received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1984, and two years later, she earned a Master of Arts in French studies from New York University.</p>

<p>Before joining the Foreign Service in 1988, Pasi worked as an institutional financial market researcher in New York.</p>

<p>Her previous overseas assignments have included: political and economic officer at the U.S. Consulate in Douala, Cameroon; human rights and consular officer in Bucharest, Romania; political chief in Accra, Ghana; and political military officer at the embassy in New Delhi, India.</p>

<p>Her duties in Washington, DC, at the State Department have been desk officer Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, and for Afghanistan, as well as line officer in the Executive Secretariat. She began work at the Afghanistan Desk on July 30, 2001, while the Taliban were still in power. The next day, two American women were arrested and threatened with execution for proselytizing Christianity. Less than two and a half months later, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.</p>

<p>Pasi served as deputy principal officer and acting consul general at the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt, Germany. From 2006 to 2009, she was the deputy chief of mission and chargé d’ affaires at the embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh.</p>

<p>At the time of her nomination to become ambassador to Djibouti, Pasi was director of East African affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs.</p>

<p>Her foreign languages include French, Hindi, Romanian and German.</p>

<p>Ms. Geeta Pasi, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, has served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary since October 22, 2018. Ms. Pasi served as U.S. Ambassador to Chad from 2016-2018 and as U.S. Ambassador to Djibouti from 2011 to 2014. She previously served as the Director of the Office of Career Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources at the Department of State.</p>

<p>Ms. Pasi was also the Director of the Office of East African Affairs in the Bureau of African Affairs from 2009 to 2011, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, from 2006 to 2009, and Deputy Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany from 2003 to 2006. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1988, Ms. Pasi has served at posts in Cameroon, Ghana, India, and Romania.</p>

<p>Ms. Pasi graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1984. She completed a Master’s Degree in French Studies at New York University in 1986. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1988, she worked as an institutional financial market researcher in New York.</p>

<p>Ms. Pasi hails from New York State. Her foreign languages include French, Hindi, Romanian and German.</p>

<p>Geeta Pasi (born 1962) is an American diplomat. She was the American ambassador to Djibouti from 2011-14. She was appointed American ambassador to Chad in June 2016 and served until 2018. In September 2018, she left the ambassadorship to become Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.</p>

<p>Pasi was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1984 and completed a Master of Arts at New York University in 1986.</p>

<p>Pasi was appointed ambassador to Djibouti by United States President Barack Obama in 2011.</p>

<p>She had previously held a number of diplomatic positions including deputy Chef de mission at the United States embassy in Bangladesh from 2006-09.</p>

<p>On June 15, 2020, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Pasi to be the next United States Ambassador to Ethiopia. On June 18, 2020, her nomination was sent to the Senate. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.</p>