Deborah Robinson is the Chargé d’Affaires of U.S. Mission in Kazakhstan.

Prior to this assignment, she was the Director of the Foreign Policy Advisor (POLAD) program in the Bureau for Political-Military Affairs in Washington, D.C. where she was responsible for the recruiting, selection, training, and support for diplomats assigned as foreign policy advisors to military commands in seven countries and 13 states.

A career Foreign Service Officer and a member of the Senior Foreign Service, Debby was previously the Political-Economic Counselor in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Deputy Political Counselor in Islamabad, Pakistan, and the lead of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Zabul province, Afghanistan.

She has also served abroad in Colombia and the United Arab Emirates and was dispatched from Washington to serve as a long-term Acting Consul General in Chennai, India and Lahore, Pakistan. Domestically, she has been the United States’ Central Asia C5+1 Coordinator, served as deputy director of the Office of Pakistan Affairs, and was the POLAD to U.S. Army Central (ARCENT), among other positions.

Debby earned a master’s degree in joint campaign planning and strategy from National Defense University – South; she also holds a J.D. from Temple University and worked briefly as a prosecutor in her home state of Colorado before joining the Foreign Service.