Career
Monroe joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1978. An economic officer, Monroe worked for three years as an International Trade Specialist at the Department of Commerce before joining the Department of State. In the Department of State, he has worked in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Monroe was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan, from April 2002 to June 2004. Prior to that, he was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait.
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