Lukens, Lewis Alan, 1963-

Lewis Alan Lukens is an American diplomat. From August 2016 until January 2019, he served as the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in London. He had previously served as Acting Ambassador at the embassy and as Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau from October 2011 until June 2014. Since leaving the foreign service, Lukens has worked for Signum Global Advisors as a senior partner and Caspian Strategies LLC as founder and CEO.

Born on December 25, 1963 in Paris, France, the child of a foreign service officer, Lukens lived in Morocco, Kenya and Denmark as a child before moving stateside. He graduated from St. Paul Catholic School in Princeton, New Jersey in 1982 and earned his bachelor’s degree in history in 1986 from Princeton University. He returned to Princeton in 2002 and earned a masters in public policy.

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