Deputy Chief of Mission
Biography of Greg Thome
Arrived Post: August 2012
Deputy Chief of Mission
United States Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Gregory Thome joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1991. He took up his duties as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Yaoundé, Cameroon, on August 15, 2012. From 2009 until the summer of 2012, Greg served as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Rabat. Prior to Morocco, he volunteered for a one-year tour in the Economic Section at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Greg was also Political Counselor in Helsinki, Finland from 2005 to 2008; Political/Economic Section Chief in
Greg began his overseas career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea-Bissau from 1988 to 1990. He holds a B.A. in Spanish Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington DC. He speaks Portuguese, French, Spanish, Finnish and the Creole language of