A career Foreign Service Officer since 2010, Alissa Bibb is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kolonia. Prior to this assignment, she most recently served as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Management. Alissa previously served overseas at the U.S. Embassies in Bishkek, Moscow, Port of Spain, and Ulaanbaatar.
Alissa is a graduate of St. Lawrence University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Languages. Before joining the State Department, she managed international exchange programs between the United States and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Alissa speaks Russian and Kyrgyz. A native of Jericho, Vermont, she is joined in Kolonia by her husband.