Jennifer Bachus

Biography

Jennifer Bachus is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service and serves as Economic Minister Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in London. She joined the Foreign Service in 1998. She was the inaugural Acting Head of Bureau and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, created in 2022.

Earlier she was Chargé d’Affaires ad interim and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Prague, Deputy Chief of Mission in Pristina, Political-Economic Counselor in Astana and head of the American Presence Post in Toulouse. In Washington she served as Office Director for Central Europe and as Special Assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. She has also served in Vietnam and Jamaica and held a fellowship at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MA from the College of Europe in Bruges.