Stephen A. Seche (born 1952) was the

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Yemen Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia. Located in South Arabia, southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, the north, Oman to Oman–Yemen border, the northeast, the south-eastern part ...

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. After working as a journalist for four years, he joined the

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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 American Cultural Center in

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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

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