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Ambassador James F. Mack assumed the position of Executive
Secretary of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the
Organization of American States (OAS) in September 2004. He began his work with
CICAD in 2002 as Coordinator of the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs, which
is CICAD’s drug statistics, research and information branch.
Before joining the OAS, Ambassador Mack, a retired career
member of the Senior Foreign Service of the U.S. Department of State, served as
the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of
International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. During this time, he also
led the Inter-Agency Task Force that coordinated US anti-narcotics assistance
to Plan Colombia and other countries in the Andean region. He was U.S.
Ambassador to Guyana from 1997 to April 2000.
Ambassador Mack joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1966
after serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras. His first diplomatic
postings were to Saigon and Nha Trang, South Viet Nam as a political officer,
and to Danang as Political Advisor to the U.S. Commander of I Corps. He
returned to the Department of State in 1969 and served as South Viet Nam
analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He was again posted abroad
as Political/Labor Officer in San Jose, Costa Rica; as Labor Officer in Sao
Paulo, Brazil; and as Principal Officer in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal. His
subsequent positions have been as Guatemala/Belize Desk Officer; Chief of the
Office of Labor/Management Relations in the Department of State; Political
Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, El Salvador; Deputy Chief of
Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay; Director of the Office of
Andean Affairs in the Department of State, where he helped prepare the First
Andean Presidential Drug Summit in Cartagena, Colombia (1990); Deputy Chief of
Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador, where he also served as Charge
d'Affaires for two years; and, from 1994 to 1997, as Deputy Chief of Mission at
the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru. Additionally, while posted to the US Embassies
in Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, he coordinated all US anti-narcotics assistance
to those countries.
Born in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1941, and raised in Rye, New
York, Ambassador Mack graduated from Cornell University in 1963 with a major in
Government. He received numerous State Department awards for superior service.
Ambassador Mack is married to the former Sheila Marvin and has four children.
Both Ambassador Mack and Mrs. Mack speak Spanish and Portuguese.
September, 2004.
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