page_title: James Brendan Foley
section_title: Professional career
hierarchical_section_title: James Brendan Foley / Professional career
caption_attribution_description: English: U.S. Ambassador to Haiti James Brendan Foley with U.S. Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers, during General Myers visit to Haiti to inspect the U.S. Troops deployed to Haiti as part of The Peacekeeping Missions, March 13, 2004.
context_page_description: James Brendan Foley is a retired American foreign service officer. He served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti from May 27, 2003 to August 14, 2005, and as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia from August 12, 2009 to August 19, 2012. As Ambassador to Haiti, Foley participated in the late-night negotiations between Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide and U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell leading to Aristide's February 29, 2004 resignation and acceptance of a U.S. offer to fly him into exile.
context_section_description: Foley is a former member of the Senior Foreign Service.  He served from 2007-2009 as the State Department’s Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues, working to alleviate the plight of several million Iraqis displaced by the war.  Previously, he served as faculty member and Deputy Commandant of the National War College, as a Diplomat-in-Residence, and as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from 2000-2003.
  He joined the Foreign Service in 1983 and served overseas as vice consul and political officer in Manila, Philippines and as political officer in Algiers, Algeria.  Foley was a speechwriter and adviser to former Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger from 1989 to 1993 and Deputy Director of the Private Office of the NATO Secretary General in Brussels, Belgium from 1993 to 1996. He was special assistant to the late Senator Paul Coverdell and served as State Department Deputy Spokesman from 1997-2000.
caption: U.S. Ambassador to Haiti James Foley with Chairman of The Joint Chiefs of Staff General Richard B. Myers at Port-au-Prince International Airport, March 2004.
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