An adjunct professor of international affairs at The George Washington University, Amb. Shinn, who received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from GW, is a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia (1996-99) and to Burkina Faso (1987-90).
His CV appears here (and is embedded below), and high resolution portraits are available here. Please direct questions about this blog here (and feel free to copy this address).
(Click on the link that follows to enlarge.) CV of Amb. David H. Shinn by David Shinn