Thomas Dougherty is an American diplomat. He is the current United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso

United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Burkina Faso .Until 1960 Upper Volta was a French possession as a part of French West Africa...

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Biography

Thomas Dougherty is from Casper, Wyoming. He graduated from Brown University

Brown University

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 and joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1989. He was nominated to be the ambassador to Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso – also known by its short-form name Burkina – is a landlocked country in west Africa. It is surrounded by six countries: Mali to the north, Niger to the east, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Côte d'Ivoire to the southwest.Its size is with an estimated...

 by President Obama on May 27, 2010 and confirmed by congress on August 5, 2010. He is a senior member of the Senior Foreign Service, and has diplomatically served previously for the United States as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

Baghdad

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, acting Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of African Affairs, and Director for West African Affairs. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Malawi

Malawi

The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

. He has also seen overseas posts in Cameroon

Cameroon

Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

, Eritrea

Eritrea

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, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

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, Republic of the Congo

Republic of the Congo

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, and Senegal

Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

. He is married with two children.