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President Obama plans to nominate SAIS alumna Anne E. Derse, left, for Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania.
Photo: Pier Paolo Cito / Associated Press
NEW YORK — The White House announced today that President Obama would nominate two Hopkins degree holders for ambassadorships. If confirmed by the Senate, the two would be the Hopkins alumni to be ambassadors under President Obama.
David Jacobson was an undergraduate at Hopkins and will be nominated for Ambassador to Canada. He currently serves as Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel. A lawyer, Jacobson earned a law degree at Georgetown University Law Center. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Jacobson served as Obama’s deputy campaign finance chair. A photo of Jacobson taken by Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times can be found HERE.
Anne Derse holds a master’s degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins’ SAIS . She has been a member of the Senior Foreign Service since 1981. Since May 2006, Derse has been the Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan. President Obama plans to nominate her for Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania. She received her undergraduate education at Macalester College.
–Michael Szeto
blogs.jhunewsletter.com
Information about the two from the White House:
David Jacobson, Nominee for Ambassador to Canada
Mr. Jacobson is currently serving as Special Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel. Prior to serving in the White House, Mr. Jacobson spent 30 years gaining expertise in the areas of complex commercial, class action, securities, insurance and business litigation as a partner at the law firm Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP. While working as a partner at Sonnenschien, Mr. Jacobson also founded AtomWorks, an organization to bring together corporate, civic and academic leaders in order to foster nanotechnology in the Midwest. He also served as a member of CEOs for Cities, a national bipartisan alliance of 75 mayors, corporate executives, university presidents and nonprofit leaders organized to advance the economic competitiveness of cities. Mr. Jacobson received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and was the Administrative Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. He received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University.
Anne E. Derse, Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of Lithuania

Anne Derse is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service since 1981 and has served as Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan since May 2006. As Director for Biodefense Policy at the Homeland Security Council (HSC) 2005-2006, Anne Derse helped develop the Implementation Plan for the U.S. National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza. Prior to that, She helped establish the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad in 2004-2005 as Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs. Ms. Derse worked as Executive Assistant in the Department of State’s Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs from 2003-2004. As Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the European Union (USEU) from 1999 to 2003, she led the USEU team managing U.S.-EU economic relations. She served as U.S. Commissioner on the Tripartite Gold Commission, adjudicating sovereign claims for gold seized by the Nazis and recovered by the Allies after World War II, while assigned as Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels 1997-1999. Ms. Derse helped coordinate United States’ participation in the 1996 APEC Summit as Economic Counselor and Deputy Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines 1995-1997. She served as Special Assistant for Asian Affairs to State’s Under Secretary for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs from 1993 to 1995. As Finance and Development officer and Deputy Economic Counselor in Korea 1989-1993, she helped establish the Presidents’ Economic Initiative, the Dialogue for Economic Cooperation and Treasury-Ministry of Finance Financial Policy Talks. She also served as trade officer in Singapore 1985-1988, staff assistant to the Counselor of the Department of State 1983-84, and as Vice Consul in Trinidad and Tobago 1981-1983. Ms. Derse received an MA from Johns Hopkins University and a BA from Macalester College.
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