U.S. Mission to the Dutch Caribbean Welcomes New Chief of Mission and Consul General

About Mr. John McNamara

Mr. McNamara is a Senior Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. Department of State. 

Mr. McNamara was most recently the Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru. Other tours abroad included to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, where Mr. McNamara’s served as Political Advisor during the final two years of the Colombian government’s peace negotiation with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). He also served as a Provincial Advisor in Babylon, Iraq, and later at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. In two Afghanistan tours, he served on the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team and at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

During assignments in Washington, DC, Mr. McNamara taught at the National Defense University, worked twice in the Department of State’s Office of Mexican Affairs, and was the Department’s Senior Desk Officer for Venezuela.

Mr. McNamara earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his Master of Arts degree from the United States Army Command and General Staff College. He is fluent in Spanish.