Deputy Chief of the Mission
Bruce Rogers
Deputy Chief of the Mission, U.S. Embassy, Riga, Latvia
Mr. Rogers is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He joined the Department of State in 1985 and has served in Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Belgium and Afghanistan. On his last assignment as Director for Provincial Reconstruction and Local Governance in Kabul, he supervised personnel at 25 locations around Afghanistan. Previously he served as the Deputy Political Advisor at the U.S. Mission to NATO (2003-2006) and as Political-Economic Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Riga. In 1991 he was part of the team that re-opened the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait at the end of the first Gulf War.
His domestic assignments include two tours in the Department of State’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, as an instructor in the Orientation Division at the Foreign Service Institute, and as a regional affairs officer in the Office of Counter-Terrorism. In that capacity he led two assessment teams to East Africa in the wake of the bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Mr. Rogers is the recipient of four State Department Superior Honor Awards and two Meritorious Honor Awards.
Mr. Rogers has a B.A. in History and International Relations from San Francisco State University. In 2007 he received a Master’s Degree with Highest Distinction in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College in Newport Rhode Island.
Mr. Rogers is married to Gale Rogers, a retired Foreign Service Officer, and has two children.