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Roger D. Pierce
Ambassador, Republic of Cape Verde
Term of Appointment: 08/26/2005 to present

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice swore in Ambassador Roger D. Pierce as the Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde on August 26, 2005.

Mr. Pierce is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor. Mr. Pierce entered duty in the Foreign Service in 1978. He served abroad as consular officer in Mexico City, Mexico (1978-1979), Santiago, Chile (1979-1981), and as Chief of the Consular Section in Calcutta, India (1981-1984) and Istanbul, Turkey (1986-1990). He served as Principal Officer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1990-1994) and Consul General in Cairo, Egypt (1997-2001).

Mr. Pierce has held domestic assignments in the State Department’s Office of Caribbean Affairs, where he was the desk officer for the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, the Netherlands Antilles, the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. He served also in the Office of the Inspector General (1995-1997). Most recently, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2002-2005).

Mr. Pierce received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish language and Latin American Studies from Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia, and a Master of Arts degree in Latin American Literature from the University of Maryland. In 1995, he graduated from the U.S. Army War Collage in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Mr. Pierce is a graduate of the 44th Senior Seminar, the Department’s highest-level leadership and management training program.

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Released on October 11, 2006

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