Ambassador Mozena arrives on 11/19

by News Desk
November 9, 2011

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Newly appointed ambassador of the United States of America in Bangladesh, Dan W Mozena will be arriving in Dhaka [Bangladesh] on November 19, 2011. He was sworn-in at the State Department in Washington D.C. on November 7. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian affairs, Robert Blake and assistant secretary Ann Stock attended the oath taking ceremony of Ambassador Dan W. Mozena. He will be joining the U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh on November 25, 2011.

A well known diplomat in Bangladesh, Mozena earlier served at U.S. Embassy in Dhaka during 1998-2001. Prior to his assignment as ambassador in Bangladesh, Dan W. Mozena served as U.S. ambassador in Angola.

Since presenting his credentials to Angolan President dos Santos on January 9, 2008, Ambassador Dan Mozena has worked to advance US interests by promoting an Angola that is peaceful, secure, prosperous, healthy and democratic. To that end, he has helped Angola halve the death rate of children from malaria, check the spread of HIV/AIDS, strengthen emerging democratic institutions, diversify the economy, foster military professionalism, and clear minefields. Under his stewardship, relations between the United States and Angola continue to improve, to the mutual benefit of both.

Prior to service in Angola, Ambassador Mozena was Director for the Office of Southern African Affairs, where he provided leadership to the US relationship with Angola, among other responsibilities.

Ambassador Mozena, a member of the Senior Foreign Service, has had a range of experience in Africa. From 2001 to 2004, Mozena was Deputy Chief of Mission in Lusaka, Zambia, where he had begun his Foreign Service career in 1982. In what proved to be his most rewarding Foreign Service assignment, Mozena served as Officer-in-Charge for South Africa and as Deputy Director for Southern African Affairs during South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy. Mozena assisted with then-President Mandela's historic state visit to Washington. Mozena was also posted to then-Zaire, where he and his wife had earlier served as Peace Corps Volunteers, helping local farmers develop better ways to raise chickens.

Ambassador Mozena was born and raised on a family dairy farm in northeast Iowa and spent the first decades of his life milking cows, slopping hogs, and doing the daily chores that are part of life on a family farm. His academic life began in a one-room country school, which had a total of 12 students spread over eight grades. He graduated from Iowa State University [Political Science and History], and later from graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison [Public Administration and Political Science].

Ambassador Mozena's wife of 38 years, Grace, is a retired elementary school teacher with professional interests focused in elementary education and teaching English as a second language. The Mozena's are proud parents of two adult children, Anne and Mark, who have finished their university studies and resides in the United States.

Earlier ambassador of United States of America, James F. Moriarty left Bangladesh in June this year on completion of his assignment tenure. Since Ambassador Motiarty's departure, the post of ambassador at U.S. Embassy in Dhaka remained vacant for seven months.

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