Robert gosende biography
Robert Gosende "is associate vice chancellor for international programs for the State University of New York.
Ambassador Gosende came to the State University of New York (SUNY) in after 35 years as a Foreign Service Officer....
Veteran ambassador to speak at Keuka commencement
Former Ambassador Robert Gosende, of Guilderland, will deliver the keynote address at Keuka College’s 111th commencement ceremonies on May 18.
Gosende worked for 36 years in foreign service with the U.S.
Information Agency and the Department of State before joining SUNY in 1998. His diplomatic assignments included tours of duty as a cultural affairs officer in Libya, Somalia and Poland, and as minister-counselor for public affairs in South Africa and Russia.
Gosende was President Bill Clinton’s special envoy for Somalia at the height of that country’s security and humanitarian crisis in 1992-93.
In 1994, he was senior adviser to the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, directing the U.S. government’s education and public affairs activities in support of South Africa’s first multiracial elections in April of that year.
While stationed in Washington, D.C., Gosende was the associate director of the Bureau of Education