On September 7, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate George P. Kent as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Estonia. On September 12, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Jennifer Adams is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), class of Career Minister. She currently is a USAID Faculty Representative at the National War College, National Defense University in Washington D.C. Before that; she served as the Acting Assistant Administrator, Global Health Bureau at USAID in Washington D.C.
She was the USAID Mission Director at the U.S. Embassy in Mozambique and the Deputy Assistant Administrator and Acting Assistant Administrator of the Global Health Bureau. Earlier she worked as the Director of the Office of Donor Engagement in the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning at USAID in Washington D.C. Among her other assignments in a career spanning three decades, she served as the Development Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, the USAID Mission Director at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil, and as the Director of the Health and Education Office of the USAID Mission in Dakar, Senegal.
Adams earned a Bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, a Master’s degree from Duke University, a Master of Philosophy degree from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and a Doctorate from Cambridge University. She speaks Portuguese and French.
