New American Ambassador to Ghana, Stephanie Sullivan, presents her Credentials to Akufo-Addo

General News of Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-01-23

The new American ambbadador to Ghana, Stephanie S. Sullivan, presented her credentials to President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Dankwa and took office as ambbadador.

Speaking at the ceremony at Jubilee House, Ambbadador Sullivan thanked President Akufo-Addo for his warm welcome to Ghana and highlighted the US-Ghana partnership aimed at advancing economic and social growth. trade, strengthen regional security and improve governance.

Ambbadador Sullivan pledged, on behalf of the US Government, to support Ghana in its journey of dependence on traditional development badistance, in line with President Akufo-Addo's vision of "Ghana beyond the help of more and more autonomous".

Ambbadador Sullivan highlighted the long-standing relationship between the United States and Ghana, highlighting a relationship that goes beyond politics and embraces the families and friendships forged through cooperation and exchanges going back to independence from Ghana in 1957 and before.

Stephanie S. Sullivan, a career member of the former Foreign Minister's post, was sworn in as Ambbadador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Ghana on November 30, 2018. She was formerly Ambbadador to the Republic of Congo (2013) . -2017). Ms. Sullivan has spent half of her 32-year foreign service career working in Africa or African politics in Washington, D.C.

More recently, she served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary-General, Office of African Affairs, US Department of State, Washington, DC, after serving as Assistant Deputy Secretary for Central African and Caribbean Affairs. security from January to August 2017.

This is Ambbadador Sullivan's second tour to Ghana. She previously held the position of Political Leader at the US Embbady in Accra from 1997 to 2001. Ms. Sullivan is very pleased to be back in Ghana. She and her husband John Sullivan have fond memories of living in Ghana with their two sons. Ambbadador Sullivan's first experiences in Africa were with the Peace Corps, where he volunteered in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1980-1983) and then Head of Peace Corps Operations for the Africa Region from 1994 to 1996. in Washington, DC.

Ambbadador Sullivan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Clbadics from Brown University and a Masters of Science in National Security Strategy from the National War College.

She speaks French, Lingala and a little bit of Spanish.