Key Officers
Deputy Chief of Mission Arlene Ferrill
Arlene Ferrill joined the State Department in August 1988. She served as Consular Officer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1988-89); General Services Officer in Kampala, Uganda (1991-93); Watch Officer in the Operations Center (1993-94); Staff Assistant in the Bureau of African Affairs (1994-95); Political/Economic/Public Diplomacy/Consular Officer in Dushanbe, Tajikistan and Almaty, Kazakhstan (covering Tajikistan) (1996-99); Desk Officer in the Office of East African Affairs covering Somalia, Djibouti, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comoros, and Madagascar (1999-2001); Management Officer in Pristina, Kosovo (2001-02); and Principal Officer in Peshawar, Pakistan (2002-04).
Arlene is from Carmel, California. She graduated from the University of California, Davis in 1983, with a BA in International Relations. She speaks Portuguese, Russian, and Serbian.