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U.S. Representative in Scotland

The U.S. Government representative in Scotland is Dana M. Linnet who joined the Foreign Service in 2000.  The U.S. has had a continuous diplomatic presence in Scotland since 1798.

Ms Linnet became Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Edinburgh following the departure of Lisa Vickers to take up  a post at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in New England.

She gained a B.A. in Politics at the University of California and a M.A. in Political Science at Copenhagen University before working in the information technology sector in the U.S. and Europe.

Her first posting in the Foreign Service was as management chief in the U.S. Consulate in Naples from 2001-2003 and from 2003-2005 she was political-military officer in Tallin, Estonia, where she was awarded the Republic of Estonia National Guard Medal of Honour (First Class).

She has also served as foreign affairs officer in the European Bureau’s Policy and Regional Affairs Office, senior political officer in the Near East Bureau’s Office of Iraq and as career development and assignments officer in the Bureau of Human Resources from 2007-2009.

Ms Linnet is bilingual in English and Danish and can also speak Italian, Estonian, Swedish, German, Norwegian, Spanish and French.