Joel Danies

Joel Danies
Danies in 2017
US Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe
In office
2018–2019
Personal details
Born (1958-04-01) April 1, 1958 (age 66)
Jacmel, Haiti

Joel Edward Danies (born April 1, 1958, in Jacmel, Haiti)[1] is a career foreign service officer who served concurrently as the US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe from 2018–2019.[2]

Education

Danies earned a B.S. in Zoology/Animal Biology at Loyola College, Maryland (1977), a B.A. in Political Science and Government at the University of Maryland, College Park, (1979) and an M.S. in National Security Strategy at the National War College in 2010.[1]

Career

Immediately prior to his ambassadorship, Danies was associate dean of the School of Professional and Area Studies, a unit of the Foreign Service Institute. While chargé d'affaires in Belmopan, Belize, during and after Hurricane Mitch in October 1998, Danies declared the area a disaster area in order to allow U.S. aid to arrive. He joined the State Department in 1987 after working for USAir.[1]

Personal life

Danies speaks French, Haitian Creole, and Arabic.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Principe: Who Is Joel Danies?". AllGov. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Joel Danies". Office of the Historian. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  3. ^ "Danies, Joel – Gabonese Republic and Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe – November 2017". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 27 May 2022.


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