Stephen Seche

Stephen Seche was born in 1952.[1] He received a B.A. in journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1974.[2] After working as a journalist for four years, he joined the Foreign Service in 1978. From 1978 to 1985, he was a diplomat in Guatemala, Peru and Bolivia.[2] From 1989 to 1993, he served as Information Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.[2] From 1993 to 1997, he served as Press Attache at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India.[2] He studied Arabic at the Foreign Service Institute's Field School in Tunis for two years.[2]

From 1999 to 2002, Seche was Counselor for Public Affairs and Director of the American Cultural Center in Damascus, Syria.[2] From 2002 to 2005, he served as Director of the Office for Egypt and Levant Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, D.C.[2] From February 2005 to August 2006, he served as Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. In 2006-2007, he taught at the University of Southern California as a Visiting Fellow.[3] He became the United States Ambassador to Yemen on September 5, 2007, up until September 2010. He was a Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University.[4] Currently, Seche is the executive vice president at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC.[5]

Seche speaks Arabic, English, French and Spanish.[6]

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