Robert Yamate
| Robert Yamate | |
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| United States Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros | |
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Assumed office December 19, 2014 |
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| President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Stephen C. Anderson |
| Preceded by | R. Niels Marquardt |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1950 (age 66–67) Monterey Park, California United States |
| Spouse(s) | Michiko Yamate |
| Alma mater |
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona University of La Verne University of Pittsburgh |
| Awards |
Superior Honor Award Meritorious Honor Award |
Robert T. Yamate (born 1950 in Monterey Park, California) is an American diplomat and a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He currently serves as the United States Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros.
Yamate is from Monterey Park, California. Yamate earned a bachelor of science in mathematics at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1973, a master of arts in education from the University of La Verne in 1977, and a master of business administration from the University of Pittsburgh in 1983. Yamate speaks French, Japanese, and Hungarian.
Yamate's early Foreign Service assignments included Tokyo, Japan; Budapest, Hungary; and the State Department Operations Center in Washington, D.C.
From 1989 to 1991, Yamate served as the administrative officer at the U.S. embassy in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Following that, he became a management officer at the U.S. consulate in Montreal, Canada. In 1994, Yamate was assigned as charge d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Apia, Samoa.
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