Jennifer Bachus is the Economic Minister Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in London.  Previously, she served as the inaugural Acting Head of Bureau and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy at the U.S. Department of State.  Prior to that, she was Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, Office Director for Central Europe; Special Assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment; Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo; Political-Economic Counselor in Astana, Kazakhstan; and head of the American Presence Post in Toulouse, France. She also served in Vietnam and Jamaica, as well as on a fellowship at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Jennifer has an M.A. from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and a B.A. from Brown University.  She speaks French, some Czech and Russian, and might still manage to mangle a few words of Vietnamese

Jennifer is married with three children and two step-children.