Ann Hardman is currently serving as the acting deputy chief of mission at the United States Embassy in Bogota, Colombia. She has been part of the Senior Foreign Service and took on the role of political counselor in Bogota in 2023.
Her previous assignments include serving as a political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, from 2020 to 2023. From 2019 to 2020, she was a State Department fellow at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Between 2014 and 2019, she worked in the Political Section of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, initially as a unit chief and later as the political counselor. In Washington, D.C., she served as a special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State.
Hardman's other roles within the Foreign Service have included being a Colombia Desk officer, watch officer in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, staff aide at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, and consular officer in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
She holds a Master of Public Policy from Duke University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Spanish from the Honors College of the University of South Carolina. Originally from Lexington, Kentucky, Hardman has two children and owns a golden retriever with her spouse.