Anne Anderson presented her credentials as Ireland’s ambassador to the United States to President Barack Obama on September 17, 2013. It’s the fifth ambassadorial posting for Anderson, a career foreign service officer.Anderson was born in July 1952 in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland.uring part of this period, she was also accredited as Ireland’s ambassador to Monaco. Anderson moved to New York as the Irish ambassador to the United Nations, serving until taking the Washington post. Anderson is a frequent lecturer at U.S. universities.