Sylvia Reed Curran is a career member of the United States Foreign Service who served as the Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires in Turkmenistan, Ashgabat (2007–2010), and Consul General in Vladivostok, Russia (2010–2013).
Curran began with the State Department in 1987 after working in cytogenetics at the University of Chicago. Curran earned a BS in Biology and AAS in Chemistry from the University of Alaska, studied Medical Technology at the University of Hawaiʻi, and received an MS in National Resource Strategy from National Defense University.