Charles O. Cecil

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Charles Oliver Cecil (born February 13, 1940 in Owensboro ) is an American diplomat .

Life

Charles O. Cecil comes from a long-established Kentucky family . One of his maternal ancestors was the lawyer and politician George Washington Triplett . Cecil studied at the University of California, Berkeley , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962 , and at Johns Hopkins University , from which he received a Master of Arts in 1964 . After that he was a member of the United States Air Force .

Cecil joined the United States Department of State in 1966 , initially serving in Kuwait and Zanzibar . He was transferred to Beirut in 1971 , where he learned Arabic . He then worked in Jeddah until he returned to Washington, DC as an office worker in charge of Saudi Arabia . Later on, Cecil was in the Foreign Ministry's Politico-Military Office, responsible for arms sales and security cooperation in Sub-Saharan Africa . He worked for Senator William Proxmire and MP Jim Leach on a fellowship .

In 1980 Charles O. Cecil became Deputy Head of the United States Embassy in Mali . In 1983 he moved to Muscat in Oman as deputy head of the US embassy there. He then worked for two years as the director of an Arabic school at the Foreign Service Institute in Tunis . Cecil then worked for the State Department in Washington, DC as the vice director of the Office of Ecology, Health, and Environment and an environmental consultant with the Office of Oceans and International Environmental and Science Affairs. He worked again as deputy head of a US embassy, ​​this time in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast . From 1995 to 1996 he was Deputy Director of West African Affairs in Washington, DC, responsible for US relations with the nine francophone states of West Africa . In 1996, Charles O. Cecil succeeded John Davison as the United States Ambassador to Niamey , Niger . In this position he was replaced in 1999 by Barbro Owens-Kirkpatrick . Cecil last worked as a member of an application committee before retiring in 2001 at the State Department.

He then began a second career as a professional photographer . He specialized in third world cultures and in Islamic culture . Due to an illness-related absence, he temporarily returned to the diplomatic service from November 2006 to July 2007 as Chargé d'affaires of the United States Embassy in Libya .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project: Ambassador Charles O. Cecil. (PDF) Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy. Initial interview date: September 7, 2006. 2010, p. 9 , accessed on January 20, 2018 (English).
  2. ^ Charles O. Cecil. Ambassador to the Republic of Niger. (No longer available online.) In: DOSFAN Electronic Research Collection. Archived from the original on September 30, 2011 ; accessed on January 20, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dosfan.lib.uic.edu
  3. ^ Chiefs of Mission for Niger. Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, accessed January 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project: Ambassador Charles O. Cecil. (PDF) Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy. Initial interview date: September 7, 2006. 2010, pp. 190–191 , accessed on January 20, 2018 (English).
  5. ↑ Best of 2012: Charles O. Cecil. ASMP Oregon, accessed January 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Cecil, Charles O.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cecil, Charles Oliver (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Owensboro