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| Wayne J. Bush Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. |
Wayne J. Bush
Chargé d’Affaires, a.i.
Wayne Bush is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He became Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States Embassy in Brussels on August 23, 2007, and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., on January 2, 2009.
From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Bush served as Chargé d’Affaires and as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Rabat, Morocco. During this period, he helped facilitate the negotiation and implementation of the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement, the first agreement of its kind with any country on the African continent.
From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Bush served in senior management roles in the State Department in Washington. He led the State Department’s management contingency planning related to Iraq, served as the Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary for Management, and directed the State Department’s management support program for U.S. diplomatic and consular posts world wide.
From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Bush was administrative officer at the American Embassy in Paris, where he coordinated the American Presence Post initiative, which established five prototype streamlined U.S. Foreign Service posts throughout France.
Mr. Bush served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kampala, Uganda from 1994 to 1997. During his assignment to Nairobi, Kenya, from 1991 to 1994, Mr. Bush served as part of a team that established a U.S. Liaison Office in Somalia to facilitate famine relief efforts.
Mr. Bush’s other Foreign Service assignments include Victoria, Seychelles; the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs and the Operations Center in the Department of State; and, the U.S. Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.
Mr. Bush joined the Foreign Service in 1982 following graduation from the University of Oregon School of Journalism. He has received the Presidential Meritorious Service Award; the Department of State’s highest award for Management Improvement; the Superior Honor Award; the Meritorious Honor Award; and, a Group Award for Valor.
Mr. Bush is married to Anna-Marie Saunders Bush. He and Anna-Marie have two children, Alexander, age 19, and Nicholas age 17.