Embassy of the United States

Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative

Milton Drucker

Milton Drucker assumed the duties of Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the OAS in July 2010.  Prior to his current assignment, he served as Director of the Office of Brazil and Southern Cone Affairs since the Summer of 2007.  From December 2003 until 2007, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Bogota, Colombia.

Mr. Drucker served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Argentina for three years.  Prior to his arrival in Buenos Aires in August 2000, he worked as the Director of the Office of Western Hemisphere Economic Policy at the Department of State. He has also served in Brazil, from 1975 to 1976 and from 1985 to 1988.  He served in Dominican Republic from 1994 to 1997 and in Conakry, Guinea from 1977 to 1978.

His career has also included work at the State Department on the international tropical timber trade, environment and trade, commodity policy, the International Energy Agency, technology transfer, the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, and exploitation of natural resources beyond national jurisdiction.

Mr. Drucker was a Peace Corps volunteer in Jamaica between 1970 and 1972.  He received a B.A. in Economics from Northeastern University in 1969 and obtained a Masters in Economics in 1974.