About Us
Susan M. Sutton
Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
Embassy of the United States of America
Sofia, Bulgaria
Susan Sutton assumed her responsibilities as Deputy Chief of Mission in July 2009. She is a career Foreign Service Officer in the United States Department of State. Prior to her arrival in Sofia, she served as Political Counselor in Bangkok, Thailand, from 2005 to 2008, and as Deputy Chief of Mission in Vientiane, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, from 2000 to 2004.
Ms. Sutton began her career in the Foreign Service in London in 1985, and subsequently served in Romania and Moldova. In the State Department, she served as country officer for Bulgaria and Albania 1989-1991, as an analyst for Southeast Asia in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, and as Deputy Director of the Bilateral Affairs Office in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
Ms. Sutton has a BA in German Studies from Boston University and an MA in German Literature from Tufts University. She speaks Bulgarian, German and Romanian. She is married to David McAuley, a teacher of English as a Second Language.