AMBASSADOR
Deputy Chief of Mission
Ms. Lisa Piascik
Lisa Piascik has been Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy Abuja since September 2007.
Ms. Piascik joined the U.S. Department of State Foreign Service in 1981. She was most recently Consul General in Warsaw, Poland. Her Foreign Service assignments have included tours as Deputy Chief of Mission in Baku, Azerbaijan; Principal Officer in Cebu, Philippines, and consular assignments in Damascus, Syria; Sanaa, Yemen Arab Republic and Beirut, Lebanon. In Washington, Ms. Piascik has served in the Bureau of Consular Affairs Visa Office as Director of Public and Diplomatic Liaison and as the Deputy Director/European Division Chief in the Office of Citizen Services; in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research as Staff Director of the Current Intelligence Staff, and in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs as a staff assistant and as Iran desk officer.
Ms. Piascik was born in Delaware and graduated from The George Washington University with a Bachelor's degree in International Affairs and from the National Defense University with a Master's degree in National Security Studies.