Re-engaging UNESCO: Ambassador Jean Manes at Dec. 16 Event
Ambassador Jean Manes, the Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to UNESCO and former Ambassador to El Salvador, will participate in a discussion with PDCA and its partners on Monday, December 16, at 12:00 p.m. via Zoom.Ambassador Manes is a Career Foreign Service Officer and received PDCA's 2012 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Diplomacy while serving as the Director of Resources in the State Department's Office of Policy, Planning, and Resources.
She worked for the U.S. Information Agency in Washington, D.C. from 1992 to 1999. During that time, she also attended American University, where she earned a Master's in Public Administration in 1996. Her subsequent assignments in the Foreign Service included ones at U.S. embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; Ponta Delgada-Azores, Portugal; and Brasilia, Brazil.
Amb. Manes served as Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, from 2012 to 2013, and then accepted a short assignment in Ft. Lauderdale as deputy director of the State Department's Florida Regional Center. She later served as Principal Deputy Coordinator at the Bureau of International Information Programs. She subsequently served as Ambassador to El Salvador from December 2015 to July 2019.
The December 16 program is sponsored by PDCA and its partners, the GWU Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication and the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy.
To register for the Zoom program, click here.