Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath
Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath | |
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| U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission at Mission Mexico | |
| Assumed office July 20, 2021 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Singapore | |
| In office January 20, 2017 – July 26, 2019 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Kirk Wagar |
| Succeeded by | Rafik Mansour |
| Personal details | |
| Born | |
| Spouse | Gautam Ramnath |
| Children | 2 daughters |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University School of Foreign Service |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Branch/service |  United States Navy |
Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath is an American diplomat. She arrived July 20, 2021 for her third assignment in Mexico as Deputy Chief of Mission to Mexico. Syptak-Ramnath is second in command to the ambassador and helps oversee a mission team that encompasses more than a thousand employees in more than 30 U.S. agencies across the embassy and nine consulates. During the Ambassador’s absences from post, she serves as Chargé d'Affaires.
Biography
Syptak-Ramnath served as Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. at U.S. Embassy Singapore from January 2017 to July 2019, directing 19 U.S. government sections and agencies in the advancement of bilateral security, military, economic, and people-to-people cooperation. During that time, she led Embassy efforts in support of the historic June 2018 Singapore Summit between President Trump and Chairman Kim.
Syptak-Ramnath previously served as Minister Counselor for Public Diplomacy at U.S. Embassy Mexico City, Deputy Chief of Mission in Bamako, Mali, and Senior Deputy Director in the Office of Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Other assignments include Tunis, Tunisia, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and Monterrey, Mexico. In November 2015, she was awarded the Department of State’s Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy.
Prior to joining the Foreign Service, she was an officer in the U.S. Navy.[1] She was a member of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation 2011-2012 Fellows Class, for which she completed executive programs at Harvard Business School and INSEAD. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of the Foreign Service. She is married to Gautam Ramnath and have two daughters, one studying at Northwestern University and the other at Pepperdine University.
References
- ^ a b "Alpha Chapter Delta Phi Epsilon Professional Foreign Service Sorority at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C." Retrieved January 26, 2022.
- ^ "PN1381-1 — Foreign Service — 113th Congress (2013-2014)". U.S. Congress }. April 11, 2014. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
