Julie J. Chung
Julie Jiyoon Chung (Korean: 줄리 정, birth 1973), birth name as Chung Ji-yoon (Korean: 정지윤; Hanja: 鄭智允), is a Korean-American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka since 2022. She previously served as Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the United States Department of State's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (WHA). Her first overseas assignment was in Guangzhou, China. Chung has later served in several posts in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Colombia and Iraq.
Julie Chung | |
|---|---|
| United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka | |
| Assumed office February 25, 2022 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Alaina B. Teplitz |
| Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs | |
| In office January 20, 2021 – August 3, 2021 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Michael Kozak |
| Succeeded by | Ricardo Zúñiga |
| Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs | |
| In office November 2018 – January 20, 2021 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Kenneth H. Merten |
| Succeeded by | Hugo Rodriguez |
| Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Embassy Phnom Penh | |
| In office 2014–2017 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Jeff Daigle |
| Succeeded by | Michael Newbill |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Chung Ji-yoon 1973 (age 50–51) Seoul, South Korea |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, San Diego (BA) Columbia University (MA) |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 정지윤 |
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Jeong Ji-yun |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chŏng Chi-yun |
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