Carmela Conroy assumes charge as Principal Officer of U.S. Consulate Lahore.

LAHORE, August 28, 2009 (Balochistan Times): Ms. Carmela Conroy assumed charge as Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate in Lahore on Thursday. Prior to her assignment in Lahore, Ms. Conroy was the refugee coordinator for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Since joining the U.S. Department of State in 1996, Ms. Conroy has served as deputy principal officer in U.S. Consulate General Naha, Okinawa, Japan; advisor to the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Bamyan, Afghanistan; economic and commercial officer at the State Departments Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, Washington, D.C.; political-military officer at U.S. Embassy Tokyo, Japan; and chief of the Non-Immigrant Visa Section, U.S. Consulate, Auckland, New Zealand. She has earned seven Superior/Meritorious Honour Awards from the U.S. State Department for her work. Ms. Conroy has an M.A. from the U.S. Naval War College. She is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, an alumna of the University of Washington School of Law (J.D.) and Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, Seattle (B.A.). Ms. Conroy speaks fluent Japanese and is scheduled to serve in Lahore for two years. She succeeds Mr. Bryan Hunt who is now the Political Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.

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