Embassy of the United States Stockholm, Sweden

Ambassador - Mark F. Brzezinski

Deputy Chief of Mission - William R. (Bill) Stewart

Agricultural Counselor - Mary Ellen Smith (resident in the Hague)

Commercial Counselor - Frank Carrico

Consul – Martin B. Tatuch

Counselor for Economic and Environmental Affairs – Laura Kirkconnell

Defense Attaché - Colonel Jon Klaus

Information Management Officer - Joel Wisner

Management Counselor – William Boyle

Political Counselor - Angie Bryan

Counselor for Public Diplomacy - Chris Dunnett

Regional Security Officer - Hank Jones

Commercial Counselor - Frank Carrico supervises a Foreign Commercial Service team responsible for programs, events, and advocacy designed to help large and small U.S. companies with exports and expansion in the Nordic-Baltic region and Swedish companies in selecting the United States for future investments.  He has primary responsibility for commercial activities in Sweden and Denmark, and also assists the U.S. embassies in Riga and Reykjavik.  Frank has previously worked as a Commerce Officer in Berlin, Germany; Tokyo, Japan; Kyiv, Ukraine; São Paulo, Brazil; Baghdad, Iraq; and Amman, Jordan.  Frank is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana and also has work and education ties to California and Texas.  Frank speaks Portuguese, Russian, German, and some Japanese. More details on programs and events can be found on his office Commercial Service Website - http://www.buyusa.gov/sweden/

Consul – Martin B. Tatuch is a career consular officer with 26 years experience.  He has previously served in Mexico City, Bogota, Rangoon, Yerevan and Skopje.  Originally from Detroit, he attended the University of Michigan and the University of Connecticut before joining the Foreign Service. 

Counselor for Economic and Environmental Affairs – Laura Kirkconnell is a member of the Senior Foreign Service with 28 years of experience as a diplomat.  Her previous assignments include Mexico City, where she was Acting Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs, Senior Advisor for Regional Economic Assistance to Southeast Europe and Senior U.S. Representative to the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe, assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Deputy Chief of Mission in Skopje, Macedonia, and assignments in Yerevan, Armenia; Rangoon, Burma; Bogota, Colombia; and Quito, Ecuador, in addition to work at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC. Laura has a BA with honors in history from Cornell University, a Masters of Science in Foreign Service with honors from Georgetown University, and a Masters in National Security Strategy from the U.S. National War College.  Laura is from Tampa, Florida.

Management Counselor – William Boyle has thirteen years of experience in the Foreign Service.  His previous postings have included Hyderabad, India; Singapore; Islamabad, Pakistan; Hong Kong; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Manila in the Philippines in addition to an assignment at the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center in Washington, DC.   William graduated from Ball State University with a degree in Music, and received his law degree from Stanford University.  Prior to joining the Foreign Service he had a career in musical theater, served in the United States Army and worked as an attorney.  He speaks German, Spanish, Italian and French.

Political Counselor - Angie Bryan is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with twenty years experience as a diplomat.  Prior to Stockholm, Angie was most recently Deputy Chief of Mission in Sana’a, Yemen.  Her other Foreign Service assignments include Kuwait, Damascus, Algiers, Lahore, Islamabad, and Lyon, as well as extended temporary duty assignments in Peshawar and Kabul.  Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Angie worked with the Peace Corps in Morocco.  Angie is from Texas.  She speaks Swedish, French, and Arabic; has also studied Urdu, Japanese, and Dari.

Counselor for Public Diplomacy - Chris Dunnett supervises a team responsible for the Embassy’s media relations and cultural programming to increase understanding of U.S. society, values and policies.  Chris has nineteen years of experience with the U.S. Department of State, having also served at the U.S. embassies in London, UK; Belgrade, Serbia; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and Tbilisi, Georgia in addition to assignments in Washington DC as assistant to the Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union and as Country Officer for the Slovak Republic.  Chris is from Baltimore, Maryland and a graduate of West Virginia University with a BA in International and Slavic Studies.  He speaks Swedish, Serbian and Russian.