Dennis B. Hankins
Dennis Bruce Hankins (born 1959) is an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Mali between 2019 and 2022. He is the current nominee to be the US Ambassador to Haiti. Early life and education Hankins earned a B.S.F.S. at Georgetown University and an M.S. at the National War College. Consular career Hankins joined the Foreign Service in 1984. His first overseas postings were as vice-consul in Recife, Brazil and then in the U.S. Embassy in Thailand. In 1989, Hankins was posted to Sudan and then in 1992, given the job of consul in Haiti. Four years later, Hankins was again posted to Africa to become the political and economic counselor in the Kinshasa embassy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, working there during the First Congo War and, for a lesser time, the Second Congo War. He moved to be the political and economic counselor in Lisbon, Portugal in 1999, spending just two years in the job before returning to Africa to be the deputy chief of mission in Maputo, Mozambique. In 2004, Hankins was appointed consul general in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia but was recalled to Washington to become the deputy director of the Office of