Deputy Chief of Mission

Piper Anne Wind Campbell

Deputy Chief of Mission, Piper AW  Campbell.

Piper Anne Wind Campbell began a three-year tour as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh September 20, 2006.  Ms. Campbell was born in Buffalo, New York.  She earned a bachelor’s degree with a certificate in Asian studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 1988.  She worked briefly for a non-governmental organization promoting trade between Western New York and the adjacent regions of Canada, before joining the Foreign Service in 1989.  She began her career serving as a consular and administrative officer in Manila, the Philippines and as a general services officer providing support to the three U.S. missions in Brussels, Belgium.  Ms. Campbell served in the State Department’s Operations Center (1994-1995) and the International Organizations Bureau (1995-1996), before being seconded to the civil affairs section of a United Nations peacekeeping mission (1996-1998).  After the successful conclusion of the United Nations Transitional Administration in Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES), Ms. Campbell helped the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) establish an office in Eastern Slavonia, Croatia (1998).

Ms. Campbell took one-year leave from the State Department to earn a Masters in Public Administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 1999, with a focus on conflict resolution.  She covered Asian issues and Security Council reform at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York (1999-2002) and was Counselor for Humanitarian Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the UN in Geneva (2002-2006).

Ms. Campbell is a resident of New York State, with an extended family in Massachusetts and Geneva, Switzerland.