Bridget Premont comes to the Institute from a tour as Deputy Chief of Mission in Bangui, Central African Republic (2023-2024), where she was responsible for embassy operations, staff development, and efforts to strengthen democratic governance and counter hostile disinformation. Prior to that assignment, she coordinated foreign assistance at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau to boost cooperation on port security and financial investigations. Across her career, Bridget has also managed political, economic, and public relations at U.S. embassies and one consulate in Tijuana, Ottawa, Brussels (the U.S. Mission to the European Union), Quito, and Nicosia. She served as a consular officer in Port-au-Prince. In Washington, Bridget worked in the Western Hemisphere bureau and in the Department’s Executive Secretariat, where she developed U.S. interagency policy on global crisis management. Bridget speaks French, Spanish, and some Haitian Creole. She has received numerous performance awards from the Department of State.
A native of California and Idaho, Bridget earned a B.A. in Political Science and French from Gonzaga University and a Master of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Prior to joining the Department, she worked as a translator and a research assistant at the Brookings Institution.