Tracey Ann Jacobson (born 1965) is an American diplomat and a former United States Amb*ador to Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kosovo. She served as the Acting *istant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from January 2017 through October 2017. She retired then returned to active duty in 2021 as the State Department's Director of the Afghanistan Task Force. She attended Johns Hopkins University.

Contents

• 1 Education
• 2 Career
• 3 Personal life
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Education

Jacobson received her Bachelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University, and her Master of Arts from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Jacobson has studied Albanian, Serbian, French, Russian, Spanish, Korean, and Tajiki.

Career

Jacobson served as Deputy Executive Secretary at the National Security Council at the White House, where she facilitated the development of foreign policy initiatives for the National Security Advisor and the President.

Jacobson, a career member of the United States Foreign Service, has served overseas in Seoul, South Korea, N*au, Bahamas, and Moscow, Russia. Her domestic *ignments have included the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, and the Office of the Under Secretary for Management. She also served as the Deputy Director of the State Department's Foreign Service Ins*ute.

Jacobson served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Emb*y in Riga, Latvia, as the U.S. Amb*ador to Turkmenistan (August 2003-July 2006), and as the United States Amb*ador to Tajikistan from August 2006 until resigning from that position in August 2009 (replaced by Kenneth E. Gross Jr. as of 12 August 2009). From 2012 to 2015, Jacobson served as the U.S. Amb*ador to Kosovo.

Since August 2015, Jacobson has been serving as the Principal Deputy *istant Secretary of the Bureau of International Organization Affairs. Since the resignation of *istant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Bathsheba N. Crocker in January 2017 when Barack Obama's presidency ended, Jacobson serves as Acting *istant Secretary. In August 2017, she informed her staff that she intended to take an early retirement, beginning in October 2017.

On January 31st, 2022, she has been appointed to serve as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, at the Emb*y in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Personal life

Jacobson is married to David Baugh, a member of the British Diplomatic Service.

References

External links

• Succession history from the US emb*y Dushanbe web site
• Appearances on C-SPAN