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Shirley Elizabeth Barnes (born 1938) is a former United States diplomat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/africana_studies/special-events/archive.dot )〕 A career Foreign Service officer, she was appointed United States Ambassador to Madagascar from June 29, 1998 to July 28, 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/chiefsofmission/madagascar )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.state.gov/1997-2001-NOPDFS///publications/statemag/statemag_sept98/appoint.html )〕 She was a part of the Senior Seminar Class of the National War College graduating in 1995. Barnes was the director of Western European affairs in the Bureau of European Affairs at the United States Department of State and served as a diplomat in West Berlin, Cairo, Sofia, and Dakar. She was also consul general in Strasbourg, France. Before joining the Foreign Service, Barnes became vice president in several major advertising agencies and worked for the Ford Foundation in the Republic of Congo, Kinshasa. She also worked for the historic African-American Institute in New York City. She received a master's degree from Columbia University and an undergraduate bachelor's degree from Baruch College. In 2004 she founded the Barnes Findley Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting women and girls in the African Diaspora with an emphasis on anti-human trafficking and economic empowerment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://departments.knox.edu/newsarchive/news_events/2006/x12685.html )〕 Barnes received an honorary doctor of laws degree in 2006 from Knox College. She is a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the American Foreign Service Association. She is also an avid patron of African art and speaks French. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shirley Elizabeth Barnes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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