Hankins, Dennis Bruce, 1959-

Dates:
Birth 1959
Gender:
Male
Americans
Portuguese, English, French

Biographical notes:

Dennis B. Hankins is the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Mali. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he formerly served as Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea from 2015 to 2018.

Mr. Hankins was the Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo, Brazil from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan from 2010 to 2012 and at the U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott, Mauritania from 2007 to 2010.

From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Hankins served as Deputy Director of the Department of State’s Office of Peacekeeping in the Bureau of International Organizations from 2005 to 2007 and as Consul General at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 2004 to 2005.

Mr. Hankins served previously as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique from 2001 to 2004. Prior to this, he was the Political/Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal from 1999 to 2001, and the Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1996 to 1998.

Mr. Hankins’s early assignments with the Department of State were in Brazil, Haiti, Sudan, and Thailand. He received a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University and a Master’s degree from the National War College. He speaks French and Portuguese.

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  • Khartoum, 29, SD
  • Kinshasa, 06, CD
  • Lisbon, 14, PT
  • Maputo, 11, MZ
  • São Paulo, 27, BR
  • Bemidji, MN, US
  • Recife, 30, BR
  • Riyadh, 10, SA