Eugene S. Young has been named Chargé D’affaires and interim at the U.S. Embassy in Banjul, The Gambia. Young is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor.
Young most recently served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Congo from 2022 to 2025. Before that, he was Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, Israel. His previous roles include Chargé D’affaires ad interim and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, Austria; Consul and Senior Civilian Representative at the U.S. Consulate in Herat, Afghanistan; and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He also held positions as Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, and Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Durban, South Africa.
Other assignments include serving as Special Assistant in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of State, Senior Watch Officer in the State Department’s Operations Center, desk officer for Hungary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Sanctions Officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and work on economic policy staff for African Affairs. Overseas postings have taken him to Bratislava, Slovakia; Belgrade and Zagreb in former Yugoslavia; and Kingston, Jamaica.
Young holds a Bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a Master’s degree from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He speaks German, French, Slovene, Slovak and Serbo-Croatian.
“CDA Young is married to Dr. Zoë Wilson, and they have two children.”