Deputy Chief of Mission

David C. Wolfe, Deputy Chief of Mission

David C. Wolfe

David C. Wolfe is the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Prior to this assignment, he was the Deputy Director for the Office of Central American Affairs in the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs in Washington D.C; Deputy Principal Officer and Consul for Economic and Political Affairs at the U.S. Consulate General in Sao Paulo, Brazil; Economic/Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia; and Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

A career member of the U.S. Foreign Service since 1991, Mr. Wolfe has served in political and consular positions at the U.S. Embassies in Guatemala and Colombia, as well as an intelligence analyst for the Andean region while in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Foreign Service, he served four years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. Mr. Wolfe is from Austin, Texas, and received his undergraduate degree in economics, management, and political science from Rice University in Houston, Texas; a master’s degree in international affairs with a concentration in Latin American politics and economics from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; and most recently, a master’s degree in national security studies from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Wolfe is married to the former Pamela Morales of Quito, Ecuador. They have two children. Mr. Wolfe is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.