Document Type
Brochure
Presentation Date
9-30-2011
Abstract
Ambassador David Shinn served for 37 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, with assignments at embassies in Lebanon, Kenya and Tanzania; deputy chief of mission in Mauritania, Cameroon and Sudan; and ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia. His State Department assignments included assistant desk officer for Ethiopia, desk officer for Somalia, Djibouti, Uganda and Tanzania; coordinator for Somalia during the international intervention in the early 1990s; and director of East African, Horn of Africa and Indian Ocean Island affairs. He writes extensively in academic and policy journals on the Horn of Africa and China-Africa relations and speaks around the world on these subjects. He is the co-author of a book on China-Africa relations that will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2012. Ambassador Shinn earned his Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University. He blogs at: http://davidshinn.blogspot.com
WMU ScholarWorks Citation
Shinn, David, "U.S. Policy Towards the Horn of Africa" (2011). Distinguished Lectures on Africa. 9.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/africancenter_lectures/9