Angela R. Dickey...

Angela R. Dickey
Deputy Chief of Mission

Angela Dickey joined the State Department and its Foreign Service in 1988. Her previous tours abroad have included Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, 2007-2011); Laos (2000-2002); Yemen (1997-1999); Mauritania (1991-1993); and Canada (Montreal, 1989-1991). 

In the State Department, Angela has worked in both the Near East and East Asia-Pacific bureaus. She twice served as desk officer, for Iraq (1993-1995) and the Philippines (2002-2003). She also was deputy director in the former Office of Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore Affairs (2003-2004); director of the former Office of Indonesia and East Timor Affairs (2004-2005); and director of the Office of Maritime Southeast Asia Affairs (2005-2006).

Angela holds a number of Superior Honor awards, including one recognizing the role she played in responding to the 2004 tsunami emergency in Asia. In 2002 the Government of Laos awarded her the Medal of Labor, the highest distinction that country confers on foreign citizens. In 2011 the Department of State awarded her the James Clement Dunn Award for Excellence at the FS-01 level.

Angela is a native of Rome, Georgia. She grew up on the campus of Berry College, where her parents were professors and from which she graduated. She earned a master’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland. She speaks French and also has studied Arabic, Lao, and Vietnamese.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Angela taught at Georgia Southern University, worked as a textbook editor in the publishing industry, and was as a copy editor and reporter at the Orlando Sentinel newspaper in Florida.