Deputy Chief of Mission
Roland W. Bullen
 Roland
Bullen took up his duties as Minister Counselor in Santo Domingo on August 18,
2006. A career member of the Foreign Service with the rank of
Minister-Counselor, his previous assignment was as Ambassador to the Cooperative
Republic of Guyana and to CARICOM. From September 2001 to July 2003 he served as
Deputy Executive Director in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs in
Washington. Throughout his career, he has served in diplomatic missions in the
Caribbean, Central and South America, Africa, as well as in Washington. From
1990 to 1994, he served as the Management Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Santo
Domingo. He was assigned as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in
Bridgetown, Barbados from 1998 to 2001. In Bridgetown he was Chargé d’Affaires
for over two years.
Mr. Bullen was born in Grenada, West Indies and came to the United States in
1966. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University in
1970, majoring in public administration. He did post graduate studies at the
United States International University in San Diego receiving a Masters of Arts
degree in social sciences in 1973.
Mr. Bullen entered the Foreign Service in 1977 and has served in Colombia, the
Dominican Republic, Liberia, Belize, Costa Rica and Venezuela. From 1994 to 1996
he served in Washington as a Senior Inspector in the Office of the State
Department’s Inspector General. Mr. Bullen is a recipient of the Department of
State Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. Before joining the State
Department, Mr. Bullen worked for the City of San Diego.
He is married to Hilda Cox-Bullen, and they have two sons.
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