Katherine Hubay Peterson Canavan is a United States diplomat and career foreign service officer. As of August 2008, she serves as the Civilian Deputy to the Commander and foreign policy advisor to Admiral James G. Stavridis, USN, Commander, United States European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. From 2005?08 she served as United States Ambassador to the Republic of Botswana, while simultaneously serving as the Secretary of State?s Special Representative to the Southern African Development Community. From 1996?98, prior to receiving her ambassadorial appointment, Ms. Canavan was the Managing Director of Overseas Citizen Services in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, during which time OCS handled the evacuations of private American citizens in 12 countries. Her tour in OCS followed three years in Windhoek, Namibia, as the Deputy Chief of Mission. Ms. Canavan entered the Foreign Service in 1976, after serving nearly three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [More at Wikipedia]

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