Laura F. Dogu is the US ambassador to the Republic of Honduras. Previously she served as the foreign policy advisor to the chief of staff of the US Army and at the Federal Bureau of Investigations as the deputy director of the Hostage Recovery Fusion Cell, an interagency group of law enforcement, diplomatic, military, and the intelligence experts responsible for the recovery of US persons held hostage abroad. She was the US ambassador to Nicaragua from 2015-2018, responsible for the bilateral relationship during a time of violent civic unrest. Earlier, she served as deputy chief of mission at US Embassy Mexico City where she managed the many different facets of the complex US-Mexico relationship, one that involves nearly every agency of the US government. Ambassador Dogu is a career member of the US Foreign Service with the rank of Career Minister.
Other overseas assignments include the US Consulate General in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and the US embassies in Turkey, Egypt, and El Salvador. Washington assignments at the Department of State included deputy executive director of the Bureau of Consular Affairs, and Operations Center Watch Officer. Ambassador Dogu received an MS from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington, DC, and an MBA, BBA and BA from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Presidential Merit Award and the James A. Baker III and C. Howard Wilkins Jr. Award for Outstanding Deputy Chief of Mission. Ambassador Dogu speaks Spanish, Turkish, and Arabic.
Dogu was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
