The US Ambassador presents his credentials to Akufo-Addo

General News of Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-01-23

The new US ambbadador to Ghana presented her credentials to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and took up her duties as ambbadador.

Speaking at the ceremony at Jubilee House, Stephanie S. Sullivan thanked the President for his warm welcome to Ghana.

She highlighted the US-Ghana partnership to advance economic growth and trade, strengthen regional security and improve governance.

The Ambbadador 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 Aid "more and more autonomous.

Ms. Sulivan emphasized the long-standing ties between the two countries, highlighting a relationship that goes beyond politics and embraces families and friendships forged through cooperation and exchanges going back to Ghana's independence in 1957 and before.

Stephanie S. Sullivan, a member of the Foreign Service Senior Ministers-Advisers Group, was sworn in as Ambbadador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Ghana on November 30, 2018.

She was previously 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.

Sullivan holds a Bachelor of Arts in Clbadics from Brown University and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the Canadian War College. She speaks French, Lingala and a little bit of Spanish.