Jennifer Leigh Brush
Chargé d’Affairs ad interim
 Jennifer Leigh Brush, Chargé d’Affairs ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade, is a career member of the Foreign Service. She most recently served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan, where she received a Superior Honor Award for her efforts as Charge d'Affaires to transform Turkmenistan to a market-oriented democracy following the death of the long-time president there. She has also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands where she received a Superior Honor Award for her work in assisting with the renewal of the Compact of Free Association and use of the U.S. Army Base on Kwajalein Atoll.
Prior to her assignment in Majuro, Ms. Brush was the State Department Director of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow and Science and Technology Center of Ukraine. These multilateral organizations, also supported by the host countries, the EU, Japan and Canada, assisted former Soviet weapons of mass destruction scientists convert their research to peaceful purposes.
Her Foreign Service overseas assignments include the U.S. Mission to International Organizations in Vienna and the U.S. Embassies in Sarajevo, Ankara, Warsaw and Belgrade.
Ms. Brush received her BA from Sophie Newcomb College of Tulane University and her MPP from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She also studied at the University of Washington's Jackson School of Russian and East European Studies and at the Political Science Faculties of the Universities of Zagreb and Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia. Ms. Brush began her international career as a high school exchange student in Kraljevo, Serbia. Ms. Brush's foreign languages include Russian, Turkmen, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Polish, Turkish and French. She has received a number of Superior and Meritorious Honor awards from the Department of State.
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