Shari Villarosa

Shari Villarosa
United States Ambassador to the Seychelles
Incumbent
Assumed office November 5, 2012
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Mary Wilis
United States Ambassador to Mauritius
Incumbent
Assumed office November 5, 2012
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Mary Wilis
United States Ambassador to Burma Acting
In office August 2005 – September 2008
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Carmen Martinez
Succeeded by	Larry Dinger
Personal details
Born	Shari English Woods Villarosa 1951 (age 72–73)
Spouse	Richard Olson
Alma mater	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill College of William and Mary

Shari English Woods Villarosa is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. She is the incumbent United States Ambassador to Mauritius and to the Seychelles.

Education

Shari graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in International Studies. She also has a law degree from The College of William and Mary. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, and Indonesian.

Career

On September 22, 2012, the United States Senate confirmed Villarosa to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Mauritius, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Seychelles.

She served as the chargé d'affaires for the United States Embassy in Rangoon, Burma, from August 2005 to September 2008. At the time, there had not been a U.S. Ambassador to Burma since 1990, so as chargé d'affaires, Villarosa was the chief of mission and the most senior official in the embassy.

She previously served as Director of Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore Affairs in the Department of State's East Asia and Pacific Bureau, Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Dili, East Timor.

Her other overseas assignments have been in Songkhla, Thailand; Brasilia, Brazil; Quito, Ecuador; and Bogotá, Colombia. Her assignments at the State Department in Washington, D.C., have been as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs; Deputy Director of the Office of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam Affairs; Singapore and Indonesia desk officer; and in the Office of Investment Affairs. In addition, she spent a year at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, as Diplomat-in-Residence.

See also

• List of ambassadors of the United States

References

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/one_item_and_teasers/nom_confc.htm