Hispanic Heritage Month 2023 – United States Department of State


Isabel E. Rioja-Scott is a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State, currently serving as the Economic Counselor in U.S. Embassy Madrid. From 2021-2022 she served as Director for North America in the White House National Security Council, where she helped craft the President’s bilateral agendas with Mexico and Canada and revived structures for North American integration. She also served as Economic and Political Counselor in U.S. Embassy Panama City, focusing on illicit finance, geostrategic security issues, and maritime affairs, and was Deputy Director in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs’ Office of Policy Planning and Coordination (WHA/PPC), which fields regional issues in the Western Hemisphere. She also served as Political Counselor and Trade Officer in U.S. Embassy Mexico City from 2012-2016 during trade agreement negotiations under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.



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