AMBASSADOR
Deputy Chief of Mission
Dundas C. McCullough
Dundas McCullough is a native of Berkeley, California, and graduated with a BA in history (high honors) from the University of California at Berkeley, where his mother and father were professors of Japanese literature. He credits his experience as a sports editor with his college daily with giving him the basic drafting and reporting skills to be a political officer in the Foreign Service, which he joined in 1982.
Mr. McCullough’s prior posts include Beirut, Port-au-Prince, Sana’a, New Delhi, Islamabad, Dhaka, and Baghdad. From 1998 to 2000, he served as Economics Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria. In Baghdad, Mr. McCullough spent 21 months as the director of the Embassy’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs office, which in 2008 programmed $600 million in foreign assistance funds in the areas of police training, rule of law capacity building, and the construction to international standards of nine prisons and the training of corrections staff to operate prisons safely and humanely. He joined the Senior Foreign Service in 2006.
Mr. McCullough has two children – one in college, one just out of college -- and is accompanied in Abuja by his wife, Yupin Sangthong McCullough of Bangkok, Thailand. His foreign languages are French and Arabic.
Ambassador
Deputy Chief of Mission
