Jackson McDonald

Jackson C. McDonald (* 1956 in Florida ) is a former diplomat of the United States and a career adviser to the US State Department . He served as the United States Ambassador to Guinea from 2004 to 2007 ; previously he was US ambassador to the Gambia from 2001 to 2004 .

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Jackson McDonald studied at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University , the Institut d'études politiques in Paris and the École nationale d'administration in Paris. He began his career in the US Immigration Service in 1980 as the third secretary and vice consul at the American Embassy in Dhaka , Bangladesh . From 1982 to 1984 he served as country manager for Bangladesh in the US State Department. In 1984 he volunteered at the American Embassy in Beirut , Lebanon , where he served as the second undersecretary of state for political affairs for two years.

After studying Russian for a year, McDonald served as First Secretary for Political Affairs at the American Embassy in Moscow from 1990 to 1991 . At the beginning of 1992 he opened the American embassy in Almaty , Kazakhstan , where he initially acted as chargé d'affaires and then as deputy envoy until 1994. From 1994 to 1997 McDonald served as Consul General in Marseille , France , with double accreditation for the Principality of Monaco.

After completing a proseminar at the US State Department in 1998, he was appointed Deputy Envoy at the US Embassy in Abidjan , Ivory Coast . In October 2001, he was sworn in as the US ambassador to the Republic of Gambia, a position he held until May 2004 before he was appointed ambassador to Guinea.

From 2007 to 2009, McDonald served as a senior security negotiation and arrangement advisor at the US State Department in Washington. In that capacity, he served as the US government's chief negotiator for politico-military agreements with foreign governments to support the deployment and deployment of US military personnel overseas. He held the faculty chair at the National Defense Intelligence College from 2009 to 2010 before becoming the first international advisor to the United States Cyber ​​Command in command .

In 2011, McDonald retired from the US State Department and pursued his lifelong interest in foreign affairs as a consultant. He is division director of Jefferson Waterman International , an international policy and advisory firm based in Washington, DC

In addition to English, McDonald also speaks French and Russian. He received the US State Department's Superior Honor Award six times and the Presidential Performance Award . He is an officer (honorary) in the state system of the Republic of Gambia.

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predecessor	Office	successor
George W. Haley	United States Ambassador to The Gambia November 29, 2001 to May 26, 2004	Joseph D. Stafford
R. Barrie Walkley	United States Ambassador to Guinea September 29, 2004 to April 2, 2007	Phillip Carter