She succeeds Catherine Ebert-Gray who served a three-year term that included Papua New Guinea's historic hosting of the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Summit in November 2018.

 

McKee's appointment was announced by US President Donald Trump in May last year and she arrived in PNG in November.

 

McKee most recently served as mission director of the USAID in Indonesia. 

 

From California, McKee has also served at USAID missions in Kazakhstan, Iraq, Peru, Bolivia, Israel and Russia. 

 

She has BA and MA degrees and can speak Russian, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesian.