Stephen A. Seche (born 1952) was the

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Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

from September 2007 to May 2010.

Biography

Stephen Seche was born in 1952. He received a

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from the

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in 1974.University of Massachusetts
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in 1978. From 1978 to 1985, he was a diplomat in

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and

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. From 1989 to 1993, he served as Information Officer at the U.S. Embassy in

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. From 1993 to 1997, he served as Press Attache at the U.S. Embassy in

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. He studied

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at the

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's Field School in

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for two years. From 1999 to 2002, Seche was Counselor for Public Affairs and Director of the

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. From 2002 to 2005, he served as Director of the Office for Egypt and Levant Affairs at the

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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

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as a visiting fellow. He became the

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on September 5, 2007, up until September 2010. He was a research associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy,

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. Seche served as the executive vice president of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC from 2015 to 2020. Seche speaks Arabic, English, French and Spanish. Stephen Seche Biography
USC.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seche, Stephen Living people 1952 births University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Social and Behavioral Sciences alumni University of Southern California faculty Ambassadors of the United States to Yemen Ambassadors of the United States to Syria United States Department of State officials United States Foreign Service personnel