US Ambassador presents credentials to Akufo-Addo

January 23, 2019 Editor News 0

Ambassador Sullivan

The new U.S. Ambassador to Ghana presented her credentials to president Akufo-Addo and has taken up her duties as Ambassador.

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

She highlighted the US-Ghana partnership focused on advancing economic growth and trade, strengthening regional security, and improving governance. 

The Ambassador expressed her commitment on behalf of the U.S. government to support Ghana’s journey away from dependence on traditional development assistance, in line with President Akufo-Addo’s vision of an increasingly self-reliant “Ghana Beyond Aid.” 

Ms Sulivan underscored the long-standing ties between the two countries, highlighting a relationship that goes beyond policy, and spans across families and friendships forged through cooperation and exchanges dating back to Ghana’s independence in 1957, and before.    

Stephanie S. Sullivan, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor was sworn in as US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ghana on November 30, 2018. 

She formerly served as Ambassador to the Republic of Congo (2013-2017). Ms. Sullivan has spent half of her 32-year career in the Foreign Service working in Africa or on Africa policy in Washington, D.C. 

Most recently, she was the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. after having been Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central African Affairs and Security Affairs from January to August 2017.
 
This is Ambassador Sullivan’s second tour in Ghana.  She previously served as the Political Chief at U.S. Embassy Accra from 1997-2001. 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.  Ambassador Sullivan’s early experiences in Africa were with the Peace Corps, serving as a volunteer in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1980-1983) and later as Peace Corps Chief of Operations for the Africa Region from 1994-96 in Washington, D.C.    

Sullivan graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics and from the National War College with a Master of Science in National Security Strategy.  She speaks French, Lingala, and some Spanish.

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