On May 25, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Marie C. Damour as U.S. Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. On May 26, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Marie C. Damour is a senior Foreign Service career member with the rank of Minister-Counselor. She currently serves as Consul General of the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Previously, Damour was the Director of the Office of Maritime Southeast Asian Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs; Director of the Office of Policy Coordination and Public Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs; and the Deputy Chief of Mission, as well as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Wellington, New Zealand.
Among her other assignments, Damour was Minister Counselor for Consular Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil; the Chief of Non-Immigrant Visa Services and then Chief of Visa Services at the U.S. Embassy in London, England; the Consular Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, and the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Damour earned her B.A. from the College of William and Mary. She speaks French, Vietnamese, and Portuguese.
