Ambassador Stromayer enjoyed a 36 year career with the US. Department of State, leading and building teams in eight countries (Haiti, Burkina Faso, India, Morocco, Hungary, Madagascar, Jordan, Togo and then back to Haiti), and in Washington. He led through crises as the desk officer for Cote D’Ivoire during that country’s 2002-04 civil war, as management oversight (AF/EX Director) for all of sub-Saharan Africa (2014-17), as Ambassador in Togo (2019-22) and most recently as CDA leading our embassy in Haiti for two years 2022-24. He is proud of the work he and his colleagues have done to help others in the name of our country. Along the way he visited Ebola stricken posts, supported PEPFAR programs, COVID vaccine distribution, USAID and CDC projects, and visited Ambassador’s self-help programs. He enjoyed the challenges of policy making in Washington as well as at the grass roots levels in the field. He has successfully negotiated with heads of state, foreign governments, civil society, business leaders and third agencies. For much of his career his family was with him (when security permitted) and they all enjoyed their experiences around the world. He has enjoyed his public speaking in French and Creole. He will always remember one head of State telling him “as long as your flag flies here there is hope for my people." Ambassador Stromayer began his overseas professional career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal.

Academic background: Ambassador Stromayer holds a Masters degree from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of the Arts from Northwestern University. In addition to fluent French he speaks working level Haitian Creole, Italian, Wolof, and some Hungarian and Spanish

Awards: Recipient of numerous State Department Meritorious and Superior Honor awards and Senior Foreign Service Performance Pay awards. October 2024 Recipient of Presidential Rank Award for sustained outstanding performance 2020-2023