André, Larry Edward, 1961-

Larry Edward André Jr. (born 1961) is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service who is currently serving as the United States Ambassador to Djibouti. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to Mauritania.

Born in 1961, André earned a BA at Claremont McKenna College in California in Political Science in 1983 and an MBA at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona in 1988. His first experience in Africa came courtesy not of the State Department, but of the Peace Corps, which sent him to work as a volunteer in Senegal from August 1983 to November 1985. After earning his MBA, André returned to Africa to work on a refugee resettlement project in Chad from 1988 to 1990.

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