Douglas C. Rohn became the American Consul General in Karachi in July 2003. In twenty-five years in the Foreign Service Mr. Rohn has served in eight countries on three different continents.  

Mr. Rohn's first overseas assignment was as a Consular Officer at the American Embassy in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, which was followed by a tour as General Services Officer at the Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay. His next posting was in Washington DC where he served as Special Assistant to an Assistant Secretary of State and later as a Desk Officer in the Caribbean Office. 

In 1988 he was assigned to USAID Cameroon as Executive Officer, the first of a series of management level tours in Africa: Director of the Joint Administrative Office Yaounde, Cameroon, Nigeria as Administrative Officer; Charge d'Affaires in Equatorial Guinea; Gambia as Deputy Chief of Mission, and then Deputy Chief of Mission in Niger. 

In 2001, Mr. Rohn was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of African Analysis at the State Department. In early 2003, he was transferred to Islamabad where he served as Special Advisor to the Ambassador. 

Mr. Rohn holds a Bachelor's and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Portland State University, Portland, Oregon. Before joining the Foreign Service he served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam 1968 - 69 and worked for the U.S. Veterans Administration for four years.