11 Facts About Maureen Cormack

Maureen Elizabeth Cormack was born on 1957 and is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2015 to 2019.

Maureen Cormack served as acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from August to September 2021.

Maureen Cormack worked for a Chicago law firm and the Ravinia Festival, an outdoor music series near Chicago, in fundraising, public relations, and artistic management.

Ambassador Cormack joined the Foreign Service in 1989, and in early assignments served as Director of the American Centers in Kwangju, South Korea and Warsaw, Poland.

Maureen Cormack then served as Deputy Cultural Attache at the US embassy in Paris, and as Consul at the American Presence Post in western France.

In 2005, Maureen Cormack returned to Washington, DC and became a Pearson Fellow, working on Capitol Hill.

In 2006, Maureen Cormack moved back to the State Department and became deputy director for Korean Affairs, where she served until 2009.

Maureen Cormack served as director of the Office of Western European Affairs until 2010.

Maureen Cormack was then named executive assistant in the Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.

In July 2011, Maureen Cormack became principal deputy coordinator of the Bureau of International Information Programs.

Maureen Cormack served as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund and Senior Advisor for the 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, co-hosted by the United States and The Netherlands in The Hague until August 2019.