THE BREN SCHOOL OF Environmental Science & Management Presents
U.S. Foreign Service Officers Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008
"Experiences in Foreign Service" Hosted by Ernst von Weizsacker
Summary: The husband-and-wife team of Jonathan Fritz and Nancy Chen will discuss their experiences as foreign service officers in Asia, Latin America, and Washington, D.C., including their activities in areas ranging from foreign policy to international environmental issues.
Biography: Nancy N. Chen Nancy N. Chen joined the foreign service in January 2006. She served in Mexico City from October 2006 until September 2008, working in non-immigrant visas and American Citizen Services. Prior to her career with the U.S. State Department, she worked as a program officer, in their Hong Kong and Washington, D.C., offices of The Asia Foundation. In Hong Kong, she worked on Hong Kong, Taiwan and China programs, including legal aid and democracy-building programs. In Washington, D.C., she was responsible for coordinating with all of the organization's 17 Asia offices on issues such as governance, law and civil society, women’s programs, economic development, and international relations. She has two master's degrees – one in international relations from Yale University and another in communications from Wake Forest University. She completed her undergraduate work at Northwestern University. Biography: Jonathan Fritz Jonathan Fritz has been a U.S. diplomat for nearly 15 years. His first assignment was to the U.S. Consulates General in Guangzhou and Chengdu, China (1994-1996). He then spent two years at the U.S. Consulate General in Guayaquil, Ecuador, after which he was transferred to Washington, D.C., where he served on the State Department's China Desk from 1999-2001. He was next detailed to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where he served as lead U.S. negotiator for the environmental chapter of the U.S.-CAFTA Free Trade Agreement. He was the appointed to the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong, where he worked in the economic-political section (2003-2005). He returned to Washington to become a special assistant to then-Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick (2005-2006), then arrived in Mexico City in October 2006, where he is the lead embassy official for bilateral trade and intellectual property affairs. __________________________________________________________________________________
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