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Tony Holmes was confirmed by the Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Burkina Faso on October 2, 2002 and he presented his credentials to President Blaise Compaoré on December 23, 2002.
He was Director of the Africa Bureau's economic policy office from 1999 to 2002, where he work on a wide array of economic and global issues, including helping the USG and Africa come to grips with the devastating HIV/AIDS pandemic, implementing the African Growth and Opportunity Act, tailoring our assistance efforts to take advantage of changing circumstances in both Washington and in Africa, and working on Africa debt policy. He has spent almost half of his career on African issues, having also served as the chief of the economic/commercial section in Harare (1991-95) and as an economic officer in Nairobi (1984-88).
Mr. Holmes has spent the other half of his career as an economic and occasionally commercial officer in Egypt (1980-82) and Syria (82-84), and as the head of the economic sections in Singapore (88-91) and Sweden (96-99). He was also the Deputy Director of the Office of Sanctions Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (1995-96).
Mr. Holmes has a B.A. in Comparative Religion and an M.A. in Economic Geography from the University of Georgia, as well as a M.B.A. in International Management from The Thunderbird School. He is married and has two sons.
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