Julie Davis Fisher
Julie Davis Fisher
Ambassador of the United States to Cyprus
U.S. Embassy in Nicosia, United States
Julie Davis Fisher is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to Cyprus.
Prior to her appointment as Ambassador to Cyprus, Fisher served as the Special
Envoy for Belarus based in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2020, she was confirmed as the
first U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Belarus since 2008. Fisher previously
served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Europe and the European
Union in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and as Deputy Permanent
Representative of the U.S. Mission to NATO. Earlier, she was the Chief of Staff to
the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, and the Director of the State Department’s Operations Center. Other assignments include a detail to
NATO’s international staff as Deputy Director of the Private Office and assignments
at U.S. embassies in Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia, as well as tours at the National
Security Council, the bureaus for European and Eurasian Affairs and Near Eastern
Affairs, and the Secretary of State’s Executive Secretariat Staff.
Fisher is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and has received numerous
awards including a Presidential Rank Award. Fisher earned a Bachelor’s degree
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Masters degree from the
School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She speaks
Russian and French.