A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Caroline Savage arrived as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary in August 2025 and has served as Chargé d’Affaires, a.i., since November 2025.

Most recently, she served as Director of the State Department’s Office of Russian Affairs and previously led the U.S. Consulate General in Almaty, Kazakhstan. During earlier Washington tours, she was Director of the State Department’s Foreign Press Centers and served as Director for Russia and Central Asia on the National Security Council. She was a non-resident fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy from 2024-2025 and 2019-2021 and a Rusk Fellow in 2018 to 2019, when she taught courses on Diplomatic and Military Statecraft and U.S.-Russia Relations.

Her previous overseas postings include Azerbaijan, Mozambique, Belarus, and Luxembourg. Raised in Wisconsin, Ms. Savage graduated from Georgetown University and earned Masters’ degrees in Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies and Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has studied Hungarian, Kazakh, Russian, Azerbaijani, French, and Portuguese.