Consul General Evan G. Reade
Biography
Consul General Evan G. Reade (DOS photo)
Mr. Evan G. Reade has served as the Consul General of the United States of America in Strasbourg, France since September 1, 2011, and has been a member of the U.S. Foreign Service since 1989.
His overseas assignments include service at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados as a Vice Consul, the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia as a Political Officer, the U.S. Consulate General in Casablanca, Morocco as the Chief of the Consular Section, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq as the Deputy Counselor for Political Military Affairs, and at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan as the Deputy Chief of the Policy and Bilateral Relations Unit.
His assignments in the United States include tours of duty at the State Department Operations Center, the White House Situation Room, as the Country Desk Officer for Libya and Tunisia, and as the Deputy Regional Director of the Office of Foreign Missions in San Francisco, California.
His most recent assignment was as the Foreign Policy Advisor to the commanding general of U.S. Army Central Command, encompassing all U.S. Army forces in the Middle East and in South and Central Asia.
Mr. Reade was born and raised in Palo Alto, California and attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. He subsequently earned a Juris Doctor Degree at the American University’s Washington College of Law. Prior to joining the State Department, he worked as a police officer in California and as a lawyer in San Francisco specializing in complex corporate litigation.
Mr. Reade is accompanied in Strasbourg by his wife, Mrs. Mary Rose N. Reade, also of Palo Alto, California. They have two grown sons.