John Letvin serves as the Economic Counselor at U.S. Embassy Athens. He joined the Foreign Service in 2004 and has served overseas in Guangzhou, Lilongwe, Ankara, the Office of Palestinian Affairs in Jerusalem, and Islamabad. John also has served in Washington in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. Prior to joining the State Department, John worked for eight years managing the development of custom software solutions for the energy industry in Houston, Texas. John has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Florida and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.