Ambassador

Linda E. Watt Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Panama

Linda E. Watt was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Panama on December 6, 2002. A career Foreign Service Officer, Ambassador Watt has served overseas in Managua, London, San Jose, Quito, Moscow, and Santo Domingo. She also served in Washington in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. She was Foreign Policy Advisor at U.S. Southern Command in Miami from 2001 to 2002.

Ambassador Watt was born in Tokyo, Japan and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a double major in history and Spanish, and received a Master of Arts degree in Latin American Studies from the University of New Mexico. She was a member of the State Department’s Senior Seminar from August 2000 to June 2001.

Ambassador Watt is married to Leo Duncan, a retired U.S. Foreign Service information management officer. She has two children, Airman First Class Thomas Crosby, and Laurie Crosby, a criminal justice major at Florida International University in Miami.