Tulinabo S. Mushingi

Tuli Mushingi
United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso
Assumed office
September 17, 2013
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Thomas Dougherty
Succeeded by Andrew Robert Young
Personal details
Born 1957 (age 58–59)
Congo-Kinshasa
Spouse(s) Rebecca Mushingi
Children 1 daughter
Alma mater Higher Pedagogical Institute
Howard University
Georgetown University

Tulinabo Salama Mushingi (born 1957) is the United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso, and previously served in the executive offices of Secretaries of State John F. Kerry and Hillary Clinton. [1]

Biography

Early career

Mushingi started his career with the US Peace Corps and served in Papua New Guinea, DR Congo, Niger, and the Central African Republic. He earned a Master's degree from Howard University and a PhD. from Georgetown University. He was also a visiting lecturer at Dartmouth College for many years and taught at Howard University, before being hired as an instructor at the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute (FSI).[2]

Foreign Service Career

After being accepted into the foreign service, Mushingi served a series of domestic and overseas assignments including Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Maputo, Mozambique; Lusaka, Zambia; Casablanca, Morocco; and tours in Washington D.C. in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research; the Bureau of International Organization Affairs and the Bureau of Human Resources.

From 2003 to 2006, he served as the management officer assigned to travel with Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and from 2006 to 2009, Ambassador Mushingi worked as management counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania.

In 2009, he was promoted to Deputy Chief of Mission, and served as chargé d'affaires for the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From 2011 to 2013, he served in the Executive Offices of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and later John F. Kerry.[3]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Department of State(March 12, 2014). .
  2. ↑ U.S. Department of State(March 12, 2014). .
  3. ↑ U.S. Department of State (March 12, 2014). .
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Thomas Dougherty		 United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso
2013–2016 		Succeeded by
Andrew Robert Young
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