Pat Alsup currently serves as US ambassador to the Republic of The Gambia. She was nominated by President Obama and confirmed in 2015.
Alsup is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, and has served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Ghana and The Gambia.
Prior to that she was director of the State Department's Office of Central African Affairs. Before joining the Foreign Service in 1992, she worked in private sector market research, strategic planning and economic development.
