Anne Casper

Anne S. Casper (born 1965) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Burundi from 2016 to 2019.

Consular career Casper joined the Foreign Service in 1993. Her early assignments were as political and military officer in Tirana, Albania, as deputy public affairs officer at the Jerusalem consulate and as cultural affairs officer in Damascus, Syria. In 2001, Casper was recalled and given the place of counterterrorism policy officer at the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism.

The next year, she was made Arabic media liaison officer in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, a job in which she stayed until 2004, when she was temporarily relieved of her duties to study an M.S. at the National War College. She was confirmed on the 29 June.

Personal life Caspar earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in anthropology from Tufts University, and a Master of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University’s School for Advanced International Studies. She earned a master's degree in National Security Stragey from the National War College.