Stephen A. "Tony" Edson
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Stephen A. "Tony" Edson joined the United States Foreign Service in 1981 and is currently serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Visa Services in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs. Prior to that, Edson served as Managing Director of Visa Services and Senior Advisor for Strategic Planning to the Visa Services directorate from 2001 until 2005. He served as Consul General at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia from June 1998 until January 2001. He has also held overseas diplomatic assignments in Naha, Okinawa, Tokyo, Bangkok, and Mumbai.
Edson graduated from the University of Kansas with a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Language and Culture in 1980. He holds a Master's degree in Management from the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand and a Master of Science degree in National Security Strategy from the National War College, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington D.C.
He was born in Bethesda, Maryland on January 17, 1959, and is the father of two daughters.
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