Colleen Crenwelge serves as the Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, following service as the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. Previously, she was posted to Mogadishu, Somalia, as the deputy chief of mission and chargé d’affaires. Prior to arriving in Somalia, Colleen directed the Office of Global Social Media in the Bureau of Global Public Affairs.
Other assignments include tours as the principal officer in Lahore, Pakistan, and as the deputy public affairs officer in Kabul, Afghanistan, where she served earlier as the deputy chief of staff. Colleen also served as the political chief and acting public affairs officer in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and as the political chief in Baku, Azerbaijan. Previously, she worked as a political officer at the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and as a watch officer in the Department of State’s Operations Center. She was also posted to La Paz, Bolivia, and Lagos, Nigeria.
A Texas native, Colleen joined the Foreign Service in 2003 and has a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Texas A&M University.