Consul General

Consul General Katherine Brucker

Consul General Katherine Brucker (© Wolfgang Zeyen)

Katherine Brucker is a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service with 14 years of experience in the Department of State. Her assignments include both bilateral and multilateral work as well as extensive experience on the Secretary of State's staff.

Ms. Brucker began her career in 1994 as an Economic Officer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti where she concentrated on economic development in a post-conflict society. She transferred to Bonn in 1996 where she worked as a Consular Officer and as the Staff Assistant to Ambassador John Kornblum. In 1998 she joined the State Department's Executive Secretariat and spent the next two years supporting Secretary Albright's foreign travel, a job that took her to some thirty countries.

Following a year of economic training in Washington (2000-2001), Ms. Brucker joined the U.S. Mission to the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) in Vienna. There she worked on Good Governance, Counter-Terrorism and Terrorist Financing as well as Balkan and later Central Asian issues. Key achievements during her tenure in Vienna included winning decisions by all OSCE participating States to complete the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) self-assessments on compliance with the FATF's Eight Special Recommendations on Terrorist Financing, and to adopt the ICAO's enhanced standards for travel document security.

Leaving Vienna in 2005, Ms. Brucker assumed her duties as head of the Political, Economic and Commercial Section at the U.S. Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon. In addition to traditional political and economic reporting and advocacy, her section managed over 5 million dollars in annual assistance programs, and aggressively promoted bilateral trade and investment. In July, 2007, Ms. Brucker returned to Washington to serve as a senior watch officer in the State Department's Operations Center.

Ms. Brucker is a 1982 graduate of Tulane University of Louisiana (BA in History and French) and of Thunderbird (American Graduate School of International Management), Phoenix, AZ (Masters in International Management, 1993). Her undergraduate education included two semesters at the Sorbonne (1980-81).

Outside of work, Ms. Brucker enjoys choral singing and was previously a member of the Bonner Bach Gemeinschaft and the Bachgemeinde Wien. She is also an avid touring cyclist and has made several trips along the Danube, including a 1000km journey in 2007 from Donaueschingen to Vienna.

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