UNB, Dhaka :The Coordinator of the Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP), US Department of State, Macon Phillips, will visit Bangladesh from June 8-11.During the visit, Phillips will visit the Edward M Kennedy Center for Public Service and the Arts, one of the Department’s premier American Spaces, to participate in Environmental Day celebrations and entrepreneurship initiatives.He will also meet with youth, civil society leaders, telecommunications experts, and government officials, according to a media note of the US Department of State.The IIP is the State Department’s foreign-facing public diplomacy communications bureau.It provides and supports the places, content, and infrastructure needed for sustained conversations with foreign audiences to build America’s reputation abroad.Macon Phillips assumed the position of Coordinator in September 2013 and his first role in the Obama Administration was at the White House, as a Special Assistant to the President and Director of Digital Strategy.Previously, he ran the new media program for the Presidential Transition Team and served as the deputy director of the Obama campaign’s new media department.
