{"id":52037,"date":"2022-03-03T10:51:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=52037"},"modified":"2022-03-03T10:51:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T15:51:05","slug":"pardee-school-alumni-confirmed-as-ambassador-to-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2022\/03\/03\/pardee-school-alumni-confirmed-as-ambassador-to-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardee School Alumni Confirmed as Ambassador to Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49933\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49933\" style=\"width: 1564px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1554\" height=\"873\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young.jpg 1554w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young-534x300.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young-1536x863.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young-992x558.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2021\/08\/David-J-Young-1500x844.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1554px) 100vw, 1554px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49933\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: U.S. Embassy Zambia. (2020, December 10). <i>Special message from Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires David Young<\/i>. Retrieved from https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/usembassyzambia\/videos\/139100474422689<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On March 2, 2022, David John Young (STH &#8217;87, Pardee &#8217;88) was unanimously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/nomination\/117th-congress\/1010?loclr=cga-nomination\">confirmed by the United States Senate<\/a> as Ambassador to the Republic of Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Back on August 4, 2021, Young was nominated by President Biden as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Malawi. Young\u2019s nomination was one of many national security positions announced by the White House. The statement said the following of the Pardee School alumni:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Young, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister-Counselor, currently serves as Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires, a.i. at the U.S. Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia. Previously he served as Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires, a.i. at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director, Office of the Special Envoy for Sudan &amp; South Sudan, and he also served as Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs at the State Department. Among his other assignments, Young was a Pearson Fellow; a Public Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala; and Director, Office of International Religious Freedom in the Bureau of Democracy and Human Rights at the State Department.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The full White House statement announcing Young\u2019s nomination <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/08\/04\/president-biden-announces-intent-to-nominate-nine-foreign-policy-and-national-security-leaders\/\">online<\/a><span>.\u00a0<\/span>Read the details of Young&#8217;s confirmation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/nomination\/117th-congress\/1010?loclr=cga-nomination\">Congress.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David John Young (STH &#8217;87, Pardee &#8217;88), a career member of the Senior Foreign Service will serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Malawi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17823,"featured_media":49933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8811],"tags":[11835,8469,9937,11827,8653,11564,11754],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52039,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52037\/revisions\/52039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}