Robin Quinville

Quinville grew up in Southern California. She holds Masters of Arts and Masters of Philosophy degrees in European History from Columbia University in New York. She joined the United States Foreign Service in 1988. After initial assignments in Germany and Washington, she worked from 1992 to 1996 as a member of the US delegation to the OSCE in Vienna. She was then seconded to the United States Permanent Mission to NATO in Brussels, where from 1996 to 1999 she was responsible for issues related to NATO's eastward expansion. Then Quinville continued her career in Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Athens. From January 2008 to January 2009, she was Chief of Staff to Ambassador Charles P. Ries, the coordinator for Iraq's economic transition, in Baghdad.[1]

She then served as Counselor for Political Affairs at the US Embassies in London (2009 to 2012) and Berlin (2012 to 2015). From 2015 to 2017, Quinville headed the Western European Affairs Division at the US Department of State. Before returning to Berlin, she was a US State Department Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2017-2018) in the position of an Director, Office of Western European Affairs, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State.[2]

Up from 2 June 2020 she was successor as US Embassy Chargée d'Affaires of former ambassador Richard Grenell.