Craig B. Allen

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Craig B. Allen
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United States Ambassador to Brunei
In office
December 19, 2014 – July 20, 2018
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Preceded byDaniel L. Shields
Succeeded byMatthew J. Matthews
Personal details
Born1957 (age 64–65)
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Georgetown University

Craig Boyd Allen (born 1957) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Brunei from 2014 to 2018.[1][2]

Consular career[]

Allen began working for the Department of Commerce as part of the International Trade Administration in 1985. He began as a Presidential Management Intern and, in 1986, he took up a post at the ITA's China Office. Allen worked there for two years before being moved to the American Institute in Taiwan to be the Director of the American Trade Center in Taipei.[3]

In 1992, Allen re-joined the Department of Commerce and was given a three-year posting in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, where he served as a Commercial Attaché. After the posting, Allen moved to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo to be a Commercial Attaché there but in 1998, he was promoted to the post of Deputy Senior Commercial Officer and the next year, Allen became a member of the Senior Foreign Service.[3]

In 2000, Allen was recalled to work at the National Center for APEC in Seattle. Two years later, Allen returned to Beijing to be Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Mission to China, serving under Clark T. Randt Jr. and managing the whole of the Department of Commerce's delegation at the embassy.[3]

In 2006, Allen was assigned to be Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. consulate in Johannesburg and was responsible for the Department of Commerce's operations in all 16 SADC countries. In 2010, Allen became the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia at the ITA and then, in 2012, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for China.[4]

He was nominated to be the U.S. Ambassador to Brunei by President Obama on July 10, 2014 and was confirmed on December 19, 2014.[4] He presented his credentials on March 9, 2015.[1]

In July 2018, the US-China Business Council named Allen to succeed John Frisbie as their President.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Craig B. Allen (1957–)". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Inspiring youths to overcome global challenges - Borneo Bulletin Online". 2017-12-14.
  3. ^ a b c "Ambassador Craig B. Allen". U.S. Embassy in Brunei Darussalam. Archived from the original on 30 December 2018. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  4. ^ a b "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts". White House Archive. 2014-07-10. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
  5. ^ "The US-China Business Council names Craig Allen as its new President". US-China Business Council. 2018-06-05. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by United States Ambassador to Brunei
2014–2018 		Succeeded by
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