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] [2] She succeeded Tibor P. Nagy and was succeeded by R. Barrie Walkley. [3] 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". [4]

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References

  1. "Joyce Ellen Leader". history.state.gov. Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  2. "The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR JOYCE E. LEADER" (PDF). Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. 29 October 2003. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 June 2024. Retrieved 24 July 2024.
  3. "Guinea". history.state.gov. Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  4. "Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, ISIM, Susan Martin, Andrew Schoenholtz, B. Lindsay Lowell, Elzbieta Gozdziak, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Charles Keely, Micah Bump, Monica Hincken, Ioan Suciu". Archived from the original on 2012-04-06. Retrieved 2011-11-27.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Guinea
1999–2000
Succeeded by