On August 19, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Arthur W. Brown as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Ecuador. On September 6, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Arthur W. Brown, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, has served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe, since 2021. He was the USAID Mission Director at Embassy Harare from 2020 to 2021. Before that, Brown was USAID Director in the Dominican Republic for four years, 20 months of which he was on detail to the Department of State as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Before that, Brown was USAID Director at the U.S. Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua. Additionally, Brown served in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as USAID Deputy Director. Other assignments include Botswana, Guinea, Nigeria, and regional activities in Sierra Leone, Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados, and Namibia.
Brown is the recipient of numerous USAID performance awards and the USAID Administrator’s Management Improvement Award. He is a distinguished recipient of the Franklin H. Williams award for Outstanding Community Leaders. A Pennsylvania resident, Brown has an M.B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University, a B.A. degree from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College. Before joining USAID, Brown worked for Johns Hopkins University’s JHPIEGO Corporation, a nonprofit organization for international health, on international maternal and child health programs, and his international development career began when Brown served as a Rural Community Development Extension Agent in the Republic of Bénin, West Africa, where he was a Peace Corps Volunteer. He speaks French and Spanish.
