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Name: Klemm, Hans
Current Position: Former Ambassador
Hans G. Klemm served as the US Ambassador to East Timor from June 2007 until May 25, 2010. Klemm has worked as director of the Office of Career Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources of the State Department, and as director of the Office of Agriculture, Biotechnology and Textile Trade Affairs in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.
Overseas, Klemm worked at US embassies in Bonn, Seoul and Port of Spain. In his foreign and domestic assignments, he has had responsibility for a broad range of management and international economic policy issues, including bilateral and multilateral trade, international finance and development, international organization affairs, and civil aviation.
He has also served as Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs at the US Embassy in Tokyo.