President Joe Biden is nominating a career diplomat with nearly four decades of experience in some of the world’s toughest postings to be U.S. ambassador in Haiti.
Dennis B. Hankins, who has worked in Sudan and Congo and served as ambassador in Mali and Guinea, is currently a foreign policy adviser in the National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon. He has been in the U.S. foreign service for 38 years.
Hankins’ nomination, which needs Senate confirmation, comes 19 months after the country’s last ambassador, Michele Sison, ended her tour of duty in October 2021 after three years. The U.S. embassy has been headed by charge d’affaires Eric Stromayer, a Haitian-Creole speaking former ambassador to the Togolese Republic who worked in Port-au-Prince early in his career.
