The United States Senate approved that Arthur W. Brown be the new Ambassador to Ecuador, who will replace Michael J. Fitzpatrick.
Brown had already been nominated for this position by the US president, Joe Biden in 2022. He has served in diplomatic positions in Africa and Central America. It is not yet known when he will arrive in the country.
Brown is an expert in Security and war affairs as he trained at the National War College.
His resume shows that he worked as Deputy Director of SFS in Kabul, Afghanistanfrom 2015 to 2016, and Deputy Director in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2009 to 2011.
As a USAID official, Brown has worked on bilateral development assistance programs for more than two decades. He has previous experience in Botswana, Guinea, Nigeria and covered regional activities in Sierra Leone, Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados and Namibia. He holds several USAID honor awards, performance awards and the USAID Administrator’s Management Improvement Award. He is married to a certified family nurse practitioner who is a Peace Corps volunteer who returned from Togo, West Africa, where they met.
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