Taipei, March 4 (CNA) Chris Castro took up his duties as the chief of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Kaohsiung Branch Office Tuesday, the AIT announced in a press release.
Castro, who entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1988, had previous postings at Shanghai, China; Oslo, Norway, and the U.S. Mission to NATO in Brussels, Belgium.
He also worked as special assistant to then Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Armitage's successor, Robert B. Zoellick.
The AIT functions as the U.S. representative office in Taiwan in absence of official diplomatic relations between the two sides, with its primary office based in Taipei.