Biographic Sketch -- Ambassador Roger D. Pierce

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Ambassador Roger D. Pierce was sworn in by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on August 26, 2005.

Mr. Pierce is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor.

Mr. Pierce entered on duty in the Foreign Service in 1978. He has 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 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 Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Mr. Pierce is a graduate of the 44th Senior Seminar, the Department’s highest level leadership and management training program. His foreign languages are Spanish, Turkish, Dutch, Arabic and Portuguese.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Mr. Pierce grew up in Virginia. He and his wife Jo Ann have three children: Lisa, Christopher, and Michael.