Ambassador
Pamela J. H. Slutz
Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi
Pamela J. H. Slutz was confirmed as the next Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Burundi on August 5, 2009.
Ms. Slutz joined the U.S. Department of State in 1981 and was tenured and commissioned as a Foreign Service Officer in 1984. Her previous overseas assignments include: Kinshasa, Zaire (1982-84); Jakarta, Indonesia (1984-87 and 1999-2001); Shanghai, China (1991-94); and the American Institute in Taiwan (2001-03). She was the U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from 2003-2006. Her domestic assignments (in Washington) in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs include: the Office of Korea Affairs (1981-82); the Office of China and Mongolia Affairs (1995-97); and the Office of East Asian and Pacific Regional Security and Policy Planning (1997-99). She also served as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Talks with the USSR (in Geneva, 1987-89). Lastly, she served as Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya from 2006-2009.
A resident of Texas, she is married to a retired Foreign Service Officer, Ronald J. Deutch. They have two sons and, at last count, five grandchildren.
Ms. Slutz is a graduate of Hollins University (B.A., Politics) and the University of Hawaii (M.A., Asian Studies and Political Science), where she was also an East-West Center Fellow. She speaks French, Indonesian, and Mandarin.