Consul General

Amb. Timothy Dunn

Chief of Mission

Timothy J. Dunn
Chief of Mission/Consul General, Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

Timothy Dunn arrived in Curaçao in July 2007.  A career, Senior Foreign Service Officer, he previously served as State Department Chairman and Faculty Advisor at National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces from 2006-2007.  

He held the rank of Ambassador as Deputy Permanent Representative at the U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States, leading multilateral diplomacy efforts in support of U.S. bilateral policy from 2003-06. 

From 2000-03 he served as Director of State’s Political–Military Bureau Office of Regional Security and Arms Transfers (PM/RSAT), developing world-wide policy on sensitive, multi-million dollar arms transfers to key allies (including during operations in Afghanistan and Iraq).  He dealt extensively with Congress for arms transfer approval, and with the private sector to strengthen U.S. defense industry. 

He was Principal Officer at U.S. Consulate General, Guayaquil, Ecuador from 1997-2000, and State’s Political Advisor to two four-star Army General Commanders of U.S. Southern Command (then in Panama) from 1994-97.

Other overseas assignments include work as a Political Counselor or Officer at U.S. Embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ottawa, Canada; Beijing, China; Bogota, Colombia; Georgetown, Guyana; and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

From 1990-91, he worked on Capitol Hill as a Foreign Affairs Fellow with the American Political Science Association. He dealt mainly with issues of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. Other Washington assignments included work in the Western Hemisphere Bureau’s Office of Policy Planning, Public and Congressional Affairs, and the Consular Affairs Bureau’s Office of legal Advisory Opinions.

On leave from the State Department, he was an attorney at a Los Angeles, CA law firm, specializing in corporate and international law, and commercial litigation from 1982-83. He is a member of the California and D.C. Bar Associations.

He has been honored with the Presidential Meritorious Service Award, several State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards, and the National Defense University’s Joint Civilian Service Achievement Award. 

Ambassador Dunn holds a doctorate in law (J.D.) degree from Georgetown University Law Center, a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University; and has conducted non-degree studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Foreign languages studied include Spanish, French, Portuguese and Chinese (Mandarin). Born in Chicago, IL, he is married and has three children.