Terence Patrick McCulley (born 1957) is the former United States Ambassador to The Ivory Coast and a retired member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of

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. McCulley was nominated by President

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to this post on June 26, 2013, and presented his credentials to Ivorian President

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on November 21, 2013. He is currently the Senior Managing Director of the Africa practice at McLarty Associates and the Chairman of the U.S.-Nigeria Council. Previously, McCulley was Ambassador to Nigeria from 2010 to 2013. Before that, he was

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at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark from 2008 to 2010 and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Mali from 2005 to 2008. From 2004 to 2005, he worked at the State Department in Washington, helping to coordinate reconstruction efforts in Iraq. He has been the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassies in

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, and

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and also served as Consul in

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. Joining the Foreign Service in 1985, McCulley started his career in Niger, followed by assignments in

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and

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. Returning to Washington in 1993, he worked for two years on Central African affairs. According to the State Department, McCulley is the recipient of four Department of State Superior Honor Awards. Ambassador McCulley was born in

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, and grew up in

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, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in European History and French Language and Literature from the

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. As a

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Graduate Fellow, he studied political science at the Université de Haute Bretagne in Rennes, France. In addition, he attended the

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. McCulley is fluent in

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. Married to Renée McCulley, the couple have two sons.

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