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Michele Smith's Bio

Michele Smith

Michele Smith serves as the Senior Commercial Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Algiers, Algeria.

Prior to this post, she served as a commercial officer in the U.S. Department of Commerce’s office of the Middle East and Africa in Washington D.C., and in U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine. Before joining the Foreign Service, she worked for a U.S. defense contractor in the Washington D.C. area, a financial services firm in Greenwich, Connecticut, as well as the for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in Moscow, Russia.

Smith has also worked for multiple international development organizations supporting municipal government, real estate, and civil society reform in the former Soviet Union. Ms. Smith has an MBA with honors from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA in Economics and International Relations from the College of William and Mary. She speaks Russian and French fluently.

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