From left to right: Bradley Freden, Deputy Interim Representative of United States of America to the OAS Luis Almagro, OAS Secretary General February 11, 2021 Washington D.C. (Photo by: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS)
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Luis Almago, Secretary General of the Organization of American States on Thursday met with Interim Representative of the United States Bradley Freden at OAS headquarters in Washington D.C. Freden is the U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS and Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Permanent Mission to the OAS located in D.C. Prior to assuming his current position, he served as Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs (2018-2020) and Director of the Office of Caribbean Affairs (2016-2018). Overseas assignments include Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he was Chargé d’Affaires ad interim for 18 months; and DCM in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he was Chargé for nearly two years. He also served as Counselor for Political and Economic Affairs in Sofia, Bulgaria; Political-Military Affairs Officer in Prague, Czech Republic; Political Officer in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Vice Consul in Merida, Mexico.
Since 1991, @StateDept & @USAmbOAS has strongly supported @OAS_official & its humanitarian demining program. @StateDeptPM @USForeignAssist has invested $225 million to support communities across the Americas as they safely clear deadly landmines & explosive hazards. pic.twitter.com/k9nvgnY8oV
— Bradley Freden (@USAmbOAS) February 11, 2021
In Washington, Freden served previously in the State Department Operations Center as a Watch Officer and Senior Watch Officer; and in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where he worked on post-Cold War NATO enlargement. He was the State Department Faculty Advisor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, where he taught a core course for field-grade officers on the relationship between strategy and policy. Freden received his commission as a Foreign Service Officer in 1990 and was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 2012. He has an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a BSFS in International Politics from Georgetown University.
