Julie D. Fisher
Julie D. Fisher is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Cyprus since February 2023. She was appointed Chargé d'affaires to Ukraine on May 5, 2025.
Early life and education
Fisher earned her Bachelor of Arts in Russian and East European studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Public Policy from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.Career
Fisher is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of minister-counselor. She previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Western Europe and the EU in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Before that, she was the deputy permanent representative of the U.S. Mission to NATO leading preparations for the 2018 Brussels Summit and the move to the new NATO HQ. She was the chief of staff to the deputy secretary of state for management and resources supporting reform efforts involving knowledge management, human resources and security at U.S. facilities abroad. Prior to that, Fisher served as the director of the State Department's Operations Center, the 24/7 team that facilitates communications for the Secretary of State, department principals and colleagues around the globe; the Operations Center also hosts the department's task forces and crisis response teams.From 2011 to 2013, in support of the NATO Secretary-General, Fisher was detailed to NATO's international staff as deputy director of the Private Office. She has served in assignments at U.S. embassies in Tbilisi, Georgia; Kyiv, Ukraine; and Moscow, Russia, as well as tours at the National Security Council, the bureaus for European Affairs and Near Eastern Affairs, and as a member of the Secretary of State's Executive Secretariat Staff.