Arthur W. Brown
Arthur W. Brown is an American diplomat who is the nominee to be the next United States Ambassador to Ecuador. Early life and education Brown has an M.B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University, a B.A. degree from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College. Career Brown is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He has served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe since 2021. He was the USAID Mission Director at the embassy in Harare from 2020 to 2021. Before that, Brown served as the USAID Director in the Dominican Republic for four years, with almost half the tenure working with the Department of State as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Santo Domingo. Brown has also served as USAID Director at the U.S. Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua. Additionally, Brown served in Kabul, Afghanistan and in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo as USAID's Deputy Director. Other assignments for Brown include serving in various roles in Botswana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados, and Namibia. Before his tenure with USAID, Brown worked for