Apr 26
U.S. Department of State Information Session
Information Session: Wednesday, April 26th - 4:30pm, St. Olaf College - Viking Theater
Robert Neus is the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomat in Residence for the Midwest, based at the University of Illinois at Chicago will be at St. Olaf on the 26th. He will be available to talk with interested students from St. Olaf & Carleton.
Here are more details on Mr. Neus:
He was most recently (from 2012 - 2015) Consular Section Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Croatia. His Section was responsible for providing all consular services in-country: judicial assistance, U.S. federal benefits and emergency and non-emergency American Citizen Services for more than 260,000 tourists yearly. He served on the Interagency Country Team, as A/DCM and was appointed by the Ambassador to the Board of the American International School of Zagreb. He Chaired the International Cooperative Administrative Support Services Committee and was a member of Post’s Emergency Action Committee and the 25-country Embassy Consular Corps, meeting monthly with senior foreign officials on crisis preparedness and immigration issues.
Mr. Neus served two tours at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where his unit was ranked among the top worldwide in both visa volume and fraud detection, with yearly fee collection responsibilities of several million USD. He served on the Mission Resource Plan working group and the International Visitor Leadership Program Committee.
He was also posted to U.S. Embassy Bogota, Colombia, Consulate General Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, U.S. Interests Section Havana, Cuba and served short assignments in other regions.
He studied Croatian, Spanish and Portuguese at the Foreign Service Institute and Italian and basic Guarani previously. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame.