Joyce Ellen Leader

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Joyce Ellen Leader (born 1942) is a former American foreign service officer who served as the American ambassador to Guinea from 1999 to 2000. [1] She succeeded Tibor P. Nagy and was succeeded by R. Barrie Walkley. [2] She is a specialist in African and refugee affairs and is currently a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and was formerly a Senior Fellow at The Fund for Peace, where she authored "Rwanda’s Struggle for Democracy and Peace, 1991–1994". [3]

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References

  1. "Joyce Ellen Leader". history.state.gov. Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  2. "Guinea". history.state.gov. Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-11-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Guinea
1999–2000
Succeeded by