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Consul General Donna Welton
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Curriculum Vitae
United States Consul General
Sapporo, Japan
Consul General Donna Welton has worked as a U.S. diplomat for over fifteen years, serving most recently as Cultural Attache in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her other assignments include Seoul and Taegu, Korea, Fukuoka, Nagoya, and Tokyo, Japan, and Washington, D.C. Ms. Welton was born in the southern U.S. state of North Carolina and grew up in rural New York. She spent one year during high school as a Rotary exchange student in Kumamoto, Japan. Ms. Welton holds an A.B. in East Asian Languages and Literature from Yale College, has done graduate work in art history at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and received her M.A. from Princeton University in Art and Archaeology. She is working on her Ph.D. dissertation in the same department, researching early 20th century Japanese cultural history. Ms. Welton has worked for Hoover-NSK and Nippon Seiko K.K. in their international business departments and spent several years as a curator, both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and with the American Federation of Arts. Her publications include poems, essays, newspaper articles, and contributions to exhibition catalogues. She has three children.
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