2015 Global Identity Summit

John Brennan
Senior Advisor for Consular Affairs
State Department


Currently Senior Advisor in the Bureau of Consular Affairs in charge of the Electronic Visa project. Minister Counselor for Consular Affairs in Mexico 2011-14, with responsibility for consular operations at the Embassy and nine U.S. Consulates General in Mexico. Project Director for the global outsourcing of support services for U.S. visa applicants 2009-2011. State Department Coordinator for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative 2008-9. Office Director for Field Program in the Visa Office with responsibility for coordinating U.S. Visa Waiver Program expansion 2006-7. Served as a Foreign Service Officer in charge of visa operations in the United Kingdom, 2002-2006. Served in the Visa Office working on systems development, data-sharing and biometrics programs 2000-2002. Served as a Foreign Service Officer in charge of visa operations in Poland 1997-2000 with responsibility for immigrant and diversity visas in Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus. Served as a Foreign Service Officer in China and Japan and as a program officer covering East and Southeast Asia for the Bureau of Narcotics and Law Enforcement. Speaks Chinese and Japanese.

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