Raymond Greene yesterday began work as director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT).
Greene, who served as deputy AIT director from 2018 to 2021, replaces Sandra Oudkirk as director of the institute, which represents US interests in Taiwan in the absence of official diplomatic ties.
“Director Greene looks forward to building on the successes of his predecessors and to further advancing the rock-solid US-Taiwan partnership,” the AIT said in a statement.
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Greene, a member of the US Department of State’s Senior Foreign Service, had dedicated his 28-year career to advancing US diplomatic, economic and security interests in the Indo-Pacific region, the AIT said.
This is his third posting in Taiwan, it said.
Greene’s previous overseas assignments included serving as US consul general in Chengdu, China, and Okinawa, Japan.
He was also former chief of the Political-Military Affairs Unit at the US embassy in Tokyo, deputy chief of the AIT’s Political Section and a political officer in Tokyo and Manila.
He also served as director for Japan and East Asian Economic Affairs at the US National Security Council and director of the Office of Economic Policy in the state department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
Greene most recently served as deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Japan.
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