PAM SLUTZ CONFIRMED BY SENATE AS NEXT US AMBASSADOR
(NAMB newsletter)
-- On April 11, the US Senate unanimously approved the nomination of Ms. Pamela J. Slutz, a career Foreign Service officer, as the next US Ambassador to Mongolia, to succeed Ambassador John R. Dinger, who has ably served in Ulaanbaatar since November 2000.
Ambassador Slutz has been Deputy Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), resident in Taipei, since September 2001. AIT is the unofficial American diplomatic presence in Taiwan. She joined the Foreign Service in 1981 and served abroad in Zaire (1982-1984), Indonesia (1984-1987 and 1999-2001), Geneva (as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Talks with the Soviet Union, 1987-1989), and China (1990-1994). Her assignments in the Department of State included stints in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs: the Office of Korean Affairs (1981-1982), Deputy Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs (1995-1997), and Director of the Office of Regional Security Policy and Planning (1997-1999).
She earned her B.A. in Politics from Hollins College (1970) and her M.A. in Asian Studies/Political Science from the University of Hawaii (1972) where she was an East-West Center Fellow. She speaks French, Indonesian and Mandarin. Pam's husband is Ronald J. Deutch, the popular former Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) at the US Embassy in UB under Ambassador Al La Porta. Top