Robert E. Whitehead is a career diplomat with 27 years of service with the Department of State.
Prior to his appointment as the U.S. Chargé to Sudan, he served as the Director of the Office of African Analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He has also served in Washington, D.C. as a senior inspector in the Office of the Inspector General and as desk officer in the Office of West African Affairs.
He has served overseas in various capacities in Guyana, Zaire, Belize, and Romania. He has worked in Zaire as a political officer and as deputy chief of Mission in the Central African Republic, Zambia and Zimbabwe. He served briefly as Chargé d’Affaires in Rwanda, as Chargé d’Affaires in Sudan 2004-2005, and as the first consul general in Juba, Southern Sudan, in 2006.
Mr. Whitehead received his B.A. at Taylor University and his M.A. from Southern Illinois University. He was a Fulbright lecturer at the University of Zaire before entering the Foreign Service.
