{"id":1208,"date":"2021-10-11T15:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T15:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/?post_type=allspeakers&#038;p=1208"},"modified":"2021-10-13T00:47:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T00:47:19","slug":"sandra-oudkirk","status":"publish","type":"allspeakers","link":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/allspeakers\/sandra-oudkirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Oudkirk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sandra Oudkirk has served as the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan sincc July 2021. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Sandra previously served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary in the East Asian &amp; Pacific Affairs and the Energy Resources Bureaus as well as an<br>Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Economic &amp; Business Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her previous overseas assignments include consular assignments at AIT\/Taipei and in Embassy Dublin as well as assignments in both Embassy Ankara and Consulate General Istanbul, a tour as Narcotics Affairs Section Chief in Kingston, Jamaica and an assignment as the economic counselor in Beijing. She has also served as the East Asian &amp; Pacific Affairs Bureau staff assistant, the Burma\/Laos desk officer, as a Senior Watch Officer in the Operations Center, and as the Director for the Middle East &amp; Asia in the Energy Resources Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Oudkirk was born and raised in Tampa, Florida and is a graduate of Georgetown University&#8217;s School of Foreign Service. She is married to fellow Foreign Service Officer Scott Oudkirk and has three children. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and Turkish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1209,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-1208","allspeakers","type-allspeakers","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/allspeakers\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/allspeakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/allspeakers"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indopacificbusinessforum.com\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}