Anne Casper
{{Short description|American diplomat (born 1965)}}
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|name = Anne Casper
|image = File:Kigali City school dedication DVIDS298741.jpg
|caption = Casper on her official duties in Rwanda in 2010
|office = United States Ambassador to Burundi
|president = Barack Obama
Donald Trump
|term_start = October 20, 2016
|term_end = May 5, 2019
|predecessor = Dawn M. Liberi
|successor = Eunice Reddick
Chargé d’Affaires
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|birth_date = {{birth year and age|1965}}
|birth_place = Las Vegas, Nevada
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|spouse = Karl Deringer
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|alma_mater = Tufts University,
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
National War College
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Anne S. Casper (born 1965) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Burundi from 2016 to 2019.
Consular career
Casper joined the Foreign Service in 1993. Her early assignments were as political and military officer in Tirana, Albania, as deputy public affairs officer at the Jerusalem consulate and as cultural affairs officer in Damascus, Syria. In 2001, Casper was recalled and given the place of counterterrorism policy officer at the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism.{{cite web |title=Casper, Anne S. - Republic of Burundi - May 2016 |url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/dghr/coc/2016/257802.htm |website=U.S. Department of State |accessdate=11 November 2018}}
The next year, she was made Arabic media liaison officer in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, a job in which she stayed until 2004, when she was temporarily relieved of her duties to study an M.S. at the National War College.
Casper returned to active duty in 2005 and was sent to be public affairs counselor in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2009, she was posted to Kigali, Rwanda where she was deputy chief of mission. While working in Rwanda, her husband, Karl Deringer, won a State Department award for his charity work.
In 2012, Casper was assigned to the consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as consul general until her return to Washington D.C. in 2014 to work as deputy assistant secretary for international media. Casper was moved to be a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications. In 2016, Casper was also appointed the acting director of partnerships for the Global Engagement Center.
In May 2016, President Obama nominated Casper for the post of ambassador to Burundi.{{cite web |title=Ambassador Nomination: Anne S. Casper– From State/Global Engagement Center to Burundi |url=https://diplopundit.net/2016/05/20/ambassador-nomination-anne-s-casper-from-stateglobal-engagement-center-to-burundi/ |website=Diplopundit |date=20 May 2016 |accessdate=11 November 2018}}{{cite web |title=President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/18/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts |publication-date=18 May 2016 |accessdate=26 October 2023}} She was confirmed on the 29 June. She presented her credentials on October 20, 2016, and served until May 5, 2019.{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/casper-anne-s|title=Anne S. Casper (?–)|work=Department of State}}
Personal life
Casper's brother is assistant U.S. Attorney, Larry Casper. She is married to Karl Deringer.
Casper can speak Arabic, French, Kirundi, Thai, Hebrew and Kinyarwanda.{{cite web |last1=Straehley |first1=Steve |title=U.S. Ambassador to Burundi: Who Is Anne S. Casper? |url=http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/us-ambassador-to-burundi-who-is-anne-s-casper-160921?news=859505 |website=AllGov |accessdate=11 November 2018}}{{cite web |title=Ambassador Anne Casper |url=https://bi.usembassy.gov/our-relationship/our-ambassador/ |website=U.S. Embassy in Burundi |accessdate=11 November 2018}}
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Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Burundi
Category:Tufts University alumni
Category:People from Las Vegas
Category:United States Foreign Service personnel
Category:American women ambassadors
Category:Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni
Category:National War College alumni
Category:21st-century American women
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