Biography

Deputy Chief of Mission, Dennis Hankins.

Dennis Hankins has been the Deputy Chief of Mission in Sudan since September 2010.  Mr. Hankins in a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Counselor.  He has previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Nouakchott, Mauritania, and in Maputo, Mozambique.  Other assignments include Deputy Director of the Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions, and Counterterrorism, Consul General Riyadh, Political and Economic Counselor Lisbon, and Political Counselor Kinshasa.

Mr. Hankins was raised in Bemidji, Minnesota.  He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s  School of Foreign Service and of the National Defense University’s National War College. He is married and has one son who is serving in the U.S. Navy.  Mr. Hankins speaks French and Portuguese.