Ms Melissa A. Brown is Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, she leads on Southeast Asia policy, overseeing the Offices of Mainland and Maritime Southeast Asia, as well as the Office of Multilateral Affairs. From 2019 to 2021, Melissa served as the Chargé d’Affaires, at the U.S. Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia, where she led an unprecedented expansion of U.S. engagement with ASEAN.
