Dinner Meeting - October 18, 2016

Why Select USA: Doing Business South of the Border.

Special Guest Speaker: 
Lynne Platt, U.S. Consul General Vancouver
A senior career Foreign Service Officer, Lynne Platt began her duties as U.S. Consul General Vancouver in September 2014. The Consulate’s district includes both the Province of British Columbia and the Yukon Territory.
During Lynne’s Foreign Service career, she specialized in public diplomacy. She was the Embassy Spokesperson at the U.S. Embassies in London (2011-2014) and Paris (2004-2008), and at the U.S. Mission to NATO (2001-2004).
Lynne also has overseen large foreign assistance programs. She headed the Law Enforcement and Narcotics Affairs section at U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince (2009-2011), and was Deputy Director of the Provincial Reconstruction Team program at U.S. Embassy Baghdad (2008-2009).

Previously, she had Foreign Service assignments in Cairo (1995-1997), Casablanca (1997-1999), and Washington, DC in the State Department’s Bureau for Near East Asian Affairs (1999-2000).

Lynne graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Washington, receiving Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Political Science. She is married to C. Judson Hamblett, a fellow Foreign Service Officer.

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