Global Affairs Foreign Service Speaker Series

Terry Davidson (Department of State Diplomat in Residence)

Monday, March 23, 2015 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Merten Hall, #1202

 

Terry Davidson
Diplomat in Residence for the DC Metro Region
Based at Howard University
U.S. Department of State

Terry has worked on cultural affairs and press outreach for most of his 27-year Foreign Service career, serving in Mexico City, Rangoon, Bogota, Quito, Brasilia, Baku and Washington, D.C. Following his current assignment in Washington, he will be posted to Kabul, Afghanistan.

Terry joined the Office of Recruitment, Examination and Employment in July 2011. He served one year as an assessor for the Foreign Service Oral Assessment and two years as the Chief of Recruitment Outreach prior to taking on his current duties as the Diplomat in Residence for the DC Metro Region, covering Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia. He is one of 16 Diplomats in Residence based on campuses across the United States.

As a Diplomat in Residence, Terry reaches out to diverse candidates to provide information on pathways to the Foreign Service and Civil Service.

Terry is a Public Diplomacy track officer with the Foreign Service, having joined the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) prior to its merger with the Department of State.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1988, Terry worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Boston and San Diego. Married to State Department Management Officer Karen Davidson, he has two children, Lincoln, 21; and Amelia, 19. He has a journalism degree (BJ) from the University of Missouri and a MS in strategic studies from the National Defense University.