Jefferson Brown Biography

Jefferson Brown, Deputy Chief of Mission

Jefferson Brown, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, serves as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina. He previously served as Director for Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council in the White House, as the Director of the Office of UNESCO Affairs at the Department of State, and was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador from 2005 to 2008. 

Brown’s other overseas assignments include Minister Counselor for Press and Cultural Affairs in Mexico City; and Cultural Attaché in Brazil, and Press Attaché in Paraguay, El Salvador, and Portugal. 

From 1995-97 Mr. Brown served as Executive Assistant to the Counselor of the U.S. Information Agency, the ranking career officer responsible for U.S. government public diplomacy operations abroad.

From 1999 through 2000, he was a senior advisor in the State Department's Office of Policy Planning, working on democracy initiatives. He spent the following two years as Director of the Washington Foreign Press Center, responsible for the coordination of U.S. Government outreach to and support for U.S.-based and visiting foreign correspondents. 
 
Mr. Brown was born in Boston and raised in New Jersey. He received a BA in Modern European History from the University of Chicago.