Jerry P. Lanier

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Jerry P. Lanier

Jerry P. Lanier (born 1948 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is a United States Ambassador .

Life

He earned a bachelor's degree from the State University of Pembroke (North Carolina) and a Masters with The Rise and Fall of the KKK in Southeastern North Carolina in 1977, and from 1950 to 1952 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He then worked for three years as a lecturer at the Chair of History at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.

In 1983 he joined the foreign service. After working in the American embassies in Manila , Nairobi and Accra , he moved to the United States Department of State until 1992 as a clerk for South Korean questions . After working in the American embassy in Bangkok from 1993 to 1997, he was reappointed to the State Department in 1997. Here he first worked as Legislative Officer for Africa and from 1999 as Deputy Head of the West Africa Department.

From 2001 to 2002, Jerry P. Lanier was political advisor to the US Forces Commander at Task Force Eagle Base, Tuzla , Bosnia-Herzegovina . Jerry P. Lanier was appointed Deputy Ambassador to Accra, Ghana from 2003-2006 after serving as Deputy Head of Pakistan - Afghanistan - Bangladesh Department at the United States Department of State.

In 2007, Jerry P. Lanier became Head of the Security Division in the Africa Division involved in the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance (ACOTA) program ( asymmetric warfare ). This department also oversees political cooperation and supports US envoys to the African Union . From November 2007 to 2009, Jerry P. Lanier was a consultant for the United States Africa Command in Stuttgart , Germany.

Lanier has been the United States Ambassador to Uganda since 2009 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jerry P. Lanier, Ambassador to the Republic of Uganda. Embassy of the USA in Kampala ( Memento of May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Jerry P. Lanier, Foreign Policy Advisor. United States Africa Command ( Memento February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Lanier, Jerry P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis