Bennett was a career Senior Foreign Service Officer , and served in her early career at the US embassies in Bogotá , Colombia , Tokyo , Japan , and Manila , Philippines . She also worked in New York City at the United States Mission to the United Nations , in Washington , DC , in the United States Department of State Operations Center , and in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs . She served as Executive Assistant and Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte from 2007 to 2009 . From 2009 to 2011 , she was Deputy Executive Secretary of the State Department under Secretary Hillary Clinton . From 2011 to 2014 , she served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in Athens , Greece
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Virginia L. Bennett