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Rose M. Likins

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Rose M. Likins
United States Ambassador to Peru
In office
September 15, 2010 – June 27, 2014
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byP. Michael McKinley
Succeeded byBrian A. Nichols
United States Ambassador to El Salvador
In office
2000–2003
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byAnne W. Patterson
Succeeded byH. Douglas Barclay
Personal details
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Virginia
SpouseJohn
ProfessionDiplomat, Career Ambassador

Rose McCartney Likins (born 1959) is a Career Ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and the former United States Ambassador to Peru. Prior to this post she was the Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute in Washington, D.C., where she was also Dean of the Foreign Service Institute's School of Professional and Area Studies.[1]

Education and early career

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Born Rose McCartney, Likins is the daughter of Eugene McCartney and Merlyn Houghland. A native of Virginia, Likins holds a BA in International Relations and Spanish from Mary Washington College where she graduated in 1981.[2] She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Diplomatic career

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Likins entered the foreign service in 1981 and her early positions included Special Assistant to the United States Deputy Secretary of State, Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; Director of the State Department's Operations Center; and Honduras desk officer. She was also a consular officer in the Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico.

Her later assignments included serving in the U.S. Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay, Deputy Chief of Mission in Sofia, Bulgaria from 1995–1997, Deputy Executive Secretary of the State Department and United States Ambassador to El Salvador from August 2000 - June 2003 under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

From 2003 - 2006, Likins was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs at the State Department and from 2006 - 2010, she was the Deputy Director of the Foreign Service Institute where she was also Dean of the Foreign Service Institute's School of Professional and Area Studies.

On April 21, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated Likins to be U.S. Ambassador to Peru and on August 10, 2010 the Senate confirmed her.

References

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  1. ^ U.S. Embassy Lima website
  2. ^ . In 2017 she graduated from University of Maryland with a Masters in Library and Information Science. Allgov.com
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
2000 – 2003
Succeeded by
Preceded by U.S. Ambassador to Peru
2010 – 2014
Succeeded by