Joe Biden appointed a new diplomate to the Republic of Togo

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his intention to appoint Elizabeth Anne Noseworthy Fitzsimmons, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Togolese Republic.

According to government, this appointment of Elizabeth Anne Noseworthy and others is part of the promotion of foreign policy and national security of the United States.

Elizabeth Anne Noseworthy Fitzsimmons, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, is the Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs.

From 2018-2021, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Africa and Public Diplomacy. Prior to that, she was Acting Deputy Spokesperson for the Department.

Previous assignments include Deputy Executive Secretary to Secretaries Kerry and Tillerson, Senior Advisor at the Foreign Service Institute, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, and the Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Fitzsimmons has served overseas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Cambodia, India and Bulgaria. She has also worked in the State Department’s Operations Center and as Deputy Director of the State Department’s Executive Secretariat.

She earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia. Fitzsimmons speaks Bulgarian, French and Chinese.