Carla Jenny Fleharty has taken on a new role as U.S. Consul General in Milan, bringing more than 25 years of diplomatic experience to one of America’s most important posts in Italy.
A career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, Fleharty joined the State Department in 1999. Her career has taken her across Europe, Africa and Latin America, as well as to senior assignments in Washington. Before Milan, she held positions that included Deputy Director of the State Department’s Florida Regional Center and Management Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile, where she also served for 14 months as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission.
Her international experience is particularly broad. Fleharty served in Yaoundé, Cameroon, as a political, economic and consular officer and in London as a vice consul. Later assignments included Dakar, Senegal; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Montevideo, Uruguay, where she served as Management Officer and Acting Deputy Chief of Mission. She has also worked in the State Department’s Executive Secretariat and Bureau of European Affairs.
More recently, Fleharty served as Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua, including during a particularly difficult period in U.S.-Nicaraguan relations. Her work there was connected to the extraordinary February 2023 operation that brought 222 released Nicaraguan political prisoners to the United States.
Her academic background includes degrees in journalism and mass communications, international relations, and military art and science. She also speaks French and Spanish.
In Milan, Fleharty now assumes a position at the center of a crucial relationship connecting the United States with northern Italy – a region essential to Italian business, innovation, culture and transatlantic investment. Her extensive diplomatic and management experience gives the U.S. mission a seasoned new representative in Italy’s economic capital.
