Meet the Speaker:

Meredith McEvoy

Minister Counsellor for Economic Affairs, U.S. Embassy London

Meredith McEvoy is currently the Minister Counsellor for Consular Affairs at U.S. Embassy, London. She joined the Foreign Service in 1998, serving overseas political and consular tours in Port-au-Prince, Frankfurt, and Mexico City, and domestically in the Bureau of Human Resources, the Visa Office, and the Office of Children’s Issues, focusing on international parental child abduction.

Before arriving in London in September 2019, Meredith was the Deputy Executive Director of the Bureau of Consular Affairs. She served as the Director of the Office of Field Operations within the Visa Office from 2015 to 2017, working on immigration policy, executive orders, and overseas operations.  Prior to that assignment, Meredith was the Consul General in Baghdad.

Meredith is from St Paul, Minnesota, and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Morris, where she earned Bachelor’s degrees in English and French.  She speaks French, German, Spanish, and Haitian Creole.