Tracey Ann Jacobson to join as Chargé d’affaires in US Embassy on Saturday

Tracey Ann Jacobson, a career member of the Senior US Foreign Service, will join US Embassy in Dhaka as Chargé d’affaires, ad interim, on Saturday. 

Over the course of her distinguished career, she has served as US Ambassador three times – to Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Kosovo, said a press release issued by the US embassy in Dhaka. 

A chargé d'affaires ad interim is a diplomat who temporarily takes over the duties of a diplomatic mission's head when the permanent representative is absent.  

Most recently, Ambassador Jacobson served as a Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.  Prior to that assignment, she served as Chargé d’affaires, a.i, at the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, said the release.       

In addition to her senior leadership roles overseas, Ambassador Jacobson helped to shape the future of the Foreign Service as Dean of the School of Professional and Area Studies and then as Deputy Director of the National Foreign Affairs Training Center in the UIs, it added.   

Among Jacobson’s other roles, she has served as Deputy Executive Secretary and Senior Director for Administration of  the National Security Council in Washington D.C. and as Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy, in Riga, Latvia.   

Jacobson earned her Bachelor degree from Johns Hopkins University and her Masters  from the School of Advanced International Studies from the same university. 

She is the recipient of multiple awards from the State Department, including the Secretary’s Distinguished Service Award, two Presidential Rank Awards, and the Order for Peace, Democracy and Humanism “Ibrahim Rugova” (Kosovo).  

With Ambassador Jacobson’s arrival as Chargé d’affaires, a.i., Megan Bouldin will resume duties as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy  in Dhaka, said the release.