Most recently, Ambassador Lakhdhir served as the State Department’s Executive Secretary (2021-2023) and before that as US Ambassador to Malaysia (2017-2021).
From 2011 to 2015, she served as the Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs, and from 2009 through 2011 she served as the US Consul General in Northern Ireland.
Ambassador Lakhdhir graduated from Harvard College in 1986, and in 2007 received a Master’s degree from the National War College. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she grew up in Brooklyn and Connecticut. (Wahyu Dwi Anggoro)