Before her appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus, Kathleen Doherty, a member of the Senior Foreign Service, served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Rome between September 2013 and September 2015.

She previously served for two years as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where she had responsibility for managing relations with the European Union and Western Europe. Prior to that, she was the Director for the Office of European Union and Regional Affairs.

Prior to returning to Washington D.C. in 2010, she was Counselor for Economic Affairs in the U.S. Embassy in London.  Her other overseas assignments include Economic Counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Economic Officer in the U.S. Embassy in Rome and in the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo, and Consular Officer in the Dominican Republic.  In the Department of State, she has worked as a senior watch officer in the 24-hours Operations Center, as a Special Assistant to then Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, and in the Offices of Investment Affairs and Development Finance in the Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Bureau.

Ambassador Doherty speaks Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and received one of the Department’s highest honors for her work on U.S.-EU relations. She has a M.Sc from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Colgate University.

Contact Information

American Embassy
Metochiou & Ploutarchou Street
2407, Engomi
Nicosia, Cyprus

Phone: 357-22-393939
Fax: 357-22-780944

Website: http://nicosia.usembassy.gov/