Carnegie Mellon Welcomes Deputy Chief of Mission

In this photo: Daniel A. Clune, Deputy Chief of Mission, Carnegie Mellon Business Manager Lee Battye and Carnegie Mellon Faculty Jonathan P. Caulkins

Daniel A. Clune, Deputy Chief of Mission, was a most welcome guest speaker at a recent convocation attended by students and staff.

In 2007 Mr. Clune arrived in Canberra to serve as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy.  For the period 2005 to 2007, he was the director of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Monetary Affairs and served as Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Paris Club. (of which Australia is a permanent nation-member).  From 2002 to 2005, he was the Director of the State Department’s Office of Economic Policy and Public Diplomacy (EPPD). From 2000 to 2002, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau.  Previously, he worked as the Trade Advisor at the U.S. Mission to the OECD, and spent a year at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as Director of Middle East and Mediterranean Affairs. He has also served at U.S. embassies in Lima, Peru and Jakarta, Indonesia.  He is a graduate of Boston College and Boalt Hall, the law school at the University of California at Berkeley. He practiced law for ten years in Chicago before joining the Foreign Service in 1985.

Students enthusiastically engaged in a lively discussion, taking advantage of Mr. Clune’s generous invitation to ask about any issue of concern.  Topics raised ranged from illegal logging in Indonesia and the direct link to climate change, to foreign aid given to Bangladesh and its association with corruption, and of course the U.S. Election.

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