Joel Danies

Joel Edward Danies (Born April 1, 1958, in Jacmel, Haiti)[1] is a Career Foreign Service Officer who has served concurrently as the US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe from 2018–2019.[2]

Joel Danies (cropped)

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 in order to allow U.S. aid to begin flowing. He joined the State Department in 1987 after working for USAir.[1]

References
  1. "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.
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