{"id":478408,"date":"2026-02-19T19:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478408\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:15:08","slug":"susan-astley-cass-united-states-department-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478408\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Astley-Cass &#8211; United States Department of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"316\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Photo-Susan-Astley-Cass.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Photo - Susan Astley-Cass\"  \/> Susan Astley-Cass is a member of the Senior Foreign Service, rank of Minister Counselor, currently serving as the Deputy Comptroller for Customer Engagement under the Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services (CGFS). The Deputy Comptroller for Customer Engagement oversees the CGFS Bureau\u2019s support of overseas financial operations through its Bangkok Financial Service Center and its Post Support Unit operations in Charleston, Bangkok, Sofia, and Manila, as well as its Customer Support and Training operations in Charleston, FSTO Paris, and Bangkok.\u00a0 The Deputy Comptroller for Customer Engagement also carries out the delegated authorities and responsibilities of the Comptroller regarding debt collections and the waiver of claims owed to the Department of State and spearheads CGFS \u201chome bureau\u201d advocacy of the FMO corps, career path development, retention, and engagement.\u00a0 Previously, Susan served as a senior advisor in the Office of the Undersecretary for Management. Susan\u2019s Foreign Service career spans over 25 years and includes postings across four regional bureaus and six overseas tours in Mexico, Canada, Afghanistan, China, and Nigeria. Her last assignment in CGFS was as a senior advisor to the Comptroller and as the Director of the Post Support Unit in the Bureau of the Comptroller &amp; Global Financial\u202fServices, providing financial management support to posts around the world.\u00a0 Ms. Astley-Cass holds\u202fa bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting from American University, and a master\u2019s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susan Astley-Cass is a member of the Senior Foreign Service, rank of Minister Counselor, currently serving as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-478408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}