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Bernicat new US envoy in Dhaka

Diplomatic Correspondent
Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat has been nominated for the next
US ambassador to Bangladesh, according to an announcement of the White House.
Ambassador Bernicat is currently serving as a deputy assistant secretary at the Bureau of Human Resources of the
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Department of State and will succeed present US envoy in Dhaka Dan W Mozena when her appointment is finalised by the Senate.
US President Barak Obama had announced his intent to nominate Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat as the new ambassador to Bangladesh, said a White House statement on May 22.
Outgoing Ambassador Mozena, who was appointed on November 11, 2011, presented his Letter of Credence on November 24, 2011. Diplomatic sources say Mozena is due to retire in a couple of months.
According to the White House, Bernicat has been a
deputy assistant secretary at the Department of State since 2012.
She had previously served as the ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau from 2008 to 2011. She had also served at the Department of State as an office director for Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka in the Bureau of South Asian Affairs from 2006 to 2008.
From 2004 to 2006 she was a senior-level director and career development officer at the Bureau of Human Resources of the State Department.
Ambassador Bernicat also served as a deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados from 2001 to 2004 and Lilongwe,
Malawi from 1998 to 2001.
She was the principal officer at the US Consulate in Casablanca, Morocco from 1995 to 1998, deputy political counsellor at the US Embassy in New Delhi, India from 1992 to 1995, and desk officer for Nepal and India in the Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs from 1988 to 1990.
Earlier in her career, she was a special assistant to Deputy Secretary of State John Whitehead, consular officer in Marseille, France, and political/consular officer at the US Embassy in Bamako, Mali.
Bernicat received a BA from Lafayette College and an MS from Georgetown University.