Deputy Chief of Mission
Biography of Stephen R. Fox
Deputy Chief of Mission
United States Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon
Arrived Post: July 2008
Mr. Fox joined the Foreign Service in 1980. He has served as a Consular Officer in Guangzhou and Taipei, and as an Economic Officer in Shenyang, New Delhi, Tokyo, and Baghdad. In Washington, he has served in the Department’s 24/7 intelligence watch office, worked on intellectual property issues with major Asian economies, managed refugee resettlement programs, headed the Department’s counterterrorism finance team, and on Middle Eastern regional issues. In 2007-2008, he served as Deputy Director of the Office of Central African Affairs.
Mr. Fox has served three times on assignments outside the Department of State: as a legislative fellow in the office of Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and on the staff of the Trade Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee; in the intellectual property office of the United States Trade Representative; and on the international affairs staff of the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Mr. Fox has a B.A. in Political Science from Wabash College, a J.D. from the University of Illinois, and an M.S. from National Defense University. Before joining the Foreign Service, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand; as law clerk to the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Peoria, Illinois; and as a teaching assistant at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle. He has received two individual Superior Honor Awards and one Meritorious Honor Award from the Department, as well as five group Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards.
Mr. Fox’s wife serves as the Information Management Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Yaoundé. His son will begin graduate school at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland this fall.