Ghanaian President Jerry Rawlings with US Ambassador Kenneth Brown

Kenneth Lee Brown (born December 6, 1936) was an American diplomat who served as the

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Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t ...

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital city of Yamoussoukro is located in the centre of the country, while its largest List of ci ...

, and

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. As a career Foreign Service Officer from 1961 to 1995, he served at the American Embassy in Brussels and six posts in Africa. At the Department of State he held the positions of Deputy Director of UN Political Affairs, Associate Spokesman, Director of Central African Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Africa. Brown was nominated as ambassador to the

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in November 1981 by President

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. He was later chosen as ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire in August 1989George Bush Presidential Library
"Nomination of Kenneth L. Brown To Be United States Ambassador to Cote d'Ivoire"
August 24, 1989. Retrieved on May 27, 2013. and as ambassador to Ghana in June 1992, both times by President

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. George Bush Presidential Library
"Nomination of Kenneth L. Brown To Be United States Ambassador to Ghana"
June 4, 1992. Retrieved on May 27, 2013. In May 2001, he became president of the

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, an NGO that promotes understanding of American diplomacy, supports training of US foreign affairs personnel, and conducts oral histories of former Foreign Service officers and ambassador

as part of the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection at the Library of Congress. After leaving the foreign service, Brown became director of the Dean Rusk Program in International Studies at

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from 1995 to 2001. He has a BA in international relations from

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, an MA in international relations from

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, an MA in political science from

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, and a Ph.D. in political sociology from University of Cape Coast in

References

1936 births Living people Ambassadors of the United States to Ghana Ambassadors of the United States to Ivory Coast New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science alumni Ambassadors of the United States to the Republic of the Congo United States Foreign Service personnel Pomona College alumni University of Cape Coast alumni {{US-diplomat-stub