The United States Consulate General in Curacao is pleased to announce the arrival of Mr. John McNamara as the U.S. Consul General to Curacao and Chief of Mission to Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten.
Mr. McNamara is a senior foreign service officer at the U.S. Department of State. He assumed his duties as U.S. Chief of Mission and Consul General upon his arrival to Curacao on September 4, 2024.
Mr. McNamara was most recently the Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d’affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru. Other tours abroad included the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, where Mr. McNamara served as a Political Advisor during the final two years of the Colombian government’s peace negotiation with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). He also served as a Provincial Advisor in Babylon, Iraq, and later at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. In two Afghanistan tours, he served on the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team and at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
During assignments in Washington, DC, Mr. McNamara taught at the National Defense University, worked twice in the Department of State’s Office of Mexican Affairs, and was the Department’s Senior Desk Officer for Venezuela.
Mr. McNamara earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and his Master of Arts degree from the United States Army Command and General Staff College. He is fluent in Spanish.
We wish Consul General and Chief of Mission McNamara a warm welcome.
