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Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary: Anna Borg


Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs

Date: 11/09/2009 Description: Anna Borg. © State Dept Image
 

Anna Borg
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
Term of Appointment: 10/19/2009 to present

Anna Borg, a Minister-Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service, is Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Economics, Energy and Business Affairs as of October 19, 2009. She previously served as DCM at USOECD (2008-2009), DCM at Embassy Rome from 2005-2008, and as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs at the State Department from 2004-2005. She also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy, Terrorist Finance, Sanctions and Commodities in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs from 2000-2003. Prior to this she was Director of the Office of the United Kingdom, Benelux, and Ireland Affairs and from 1996-1999 was Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Anna Borg began her Foreign Service career in 1978 after working at the World Bank. Earlier assignments have included: Policy Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of State (1993), Policy Advisor on Bosnia in the European Bureau (1992-93), and Deputy Director of the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh Office (1990-92). She has received a Presidential Meritorious Service Award, the 2007 Baker-Wilkins Award for DCM of the Year, the 1988 James Clement Dunn Award for FS-01 Officer of the year and State Department Superior Honor Awards.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she received a B.A. from Swarthmore College, M.A. from George Washington University, D.E.A. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and diploma from the National War College (1990). Her foreign languages are French and Italian.