Anne Anderson (diplomat)
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Anne Anderson in May 2013
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| Born | July 1952 Clonmel, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
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| Occupation | Irish ambassador to:
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| Children | Claire Anderson-Wheeler |
Anne Anderson (born July 1952) is the 17th Ambassador of Ireland to the United States. She has also been Ambassador of Ireland to the United Nations, the European Union, France, and Monaco, the first woman to hold each of these positions.
Anderson was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary in July 1952. Her mother was from Limerick and her father, who worked in the psychiatric health service, was from Tipperary. The family moved to Kilkenny when she was eight, and then to Portrane, County Dublin when she was 11. She graduated from University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Arts degree (History and Politics) at the age of 19, and from King's Inns, where she earned a Diploma in Legal Studies. She has one adult daughter, Claire Anderson-Wheeler. Anderson is divorced; her partner is Frank Lowe, in New York.
Anderson joined the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in 1972. She was Third Secretary and then First Secretary in the Department's Economic Division from 1972 to 1976. She moved to Geneva where she was First Secretary of Ireland's Permanent Mission to the United Nations from 1976 to 1980, including a six-month assignment in Belgrade. She was First Secretary of the Political Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs from 1980 to 1983.
She moved to the United States where she was Economic Attaché at the Embassy of Ireland in Washington, D.C. from 1983 to 1985, and Press Attaché from 1985 to 1987. Her interest in labour issues developed during this time and her appreciation of American problems and solutions was mentored by Irish American labour leaders Tom Donahue and John Sweeney, lessons she continued to apply during her career. Her daughter, Claire, was born in Washington in 1985.
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