✨歡迎歡迎！蘇戴娜就任美國在台協會文化新聞組組長✨
蘇戴娜（Diane Sovereign）就任美國在台協會文化新聞組組長。蘇戴娜於2002年加入美國國務院，並先後擔任美國駐亞洲、歐洲和美洲的外交官。她曾擔任位於布魯塞爾的美國駐北大西洋公約組織使團政治官、美國駐伊拉克摩蘇爾文化新聞組組長、美國駐中國北京舊大使館領事官和政治官、美國駐中國北京新大使館副發言人、美國駐武漢總領事館總領事、美國駐渥太華大使館文化官、美國駐布宜諾斯艾利斯大使館發言人。在進入政府部門之前，她曾在洛杉磯和舊金山的國內法律師事務所擔任7年的公司法律師。
蘇戴娜出生於日本，在加州接受教育，並取得波莫納學院國際關係學士學位，以及加州大學哈斯汀法學院的法律博士學位，2019年蘇組長取得美國國防大學艾森豪學院之國家戰爭學院的碩士學位。蘇戴娜通曉中文、西班牙文和法文，她和她的女兒在2020年夏天從華盛頓特區抵達台北。
✨Diane Sovereign Assumes Duties as AIT’s Public Affairs Officer✨
Diane Sovereign is currently head of Public Affairs at the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). She joined the United States Department of State in 2002, and has served as a diplomat in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Prior positions include: USNATO in Brussels as a Political Officer; in Mosul, Iraq as the Public Affairs Officer; at the “old” Embassy in Beijing, China as a Consular and Political Officer; at the “new” Embassy in Beijing as the Deputy Spokesperson; at the U.S. Consulate in Wuhan, China as the Consul General; at Embassy Ottawa as the Cultural Affairs Officer, and at Embassy Buenos Aires as the Press Attaché. Prior to government service, she spent 7 years as a corporate lawyer in the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices of a national law firm, practicing labor and employment law.
Born in Japan, she was educated in California, receiving her B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and her J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law. In 2019, Diane obtained a Master’s Degree in National Security from the U.S. National War College, Eisenhower School. Diane speaks Chinese, Spanish, and French. She and her daughter arrived in Taipei from Washington D.C. in the summer of 2020.
