Derek Mitchell

Quick Facts

Full Name	Derek Mitchell
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Sep 16, 1964(1964-09-16)
Age	60
Birthplace	Georgia
Country	United States
Horoscope	Virgo

Derek Mitchell Biography

Derek Mitchell is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on September 16, 1964 in Georgia, United States. After overseeing Asian programming for Washington D.C.’s National Democratic Institute for International Affairs The diplomat was responsible for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs within the United States Defense Department and then served as U.S. Ambassador in Burma.

In the late 1980s He was an adviser in the mid-1980s for Democratic During the mid-1980s, he worked as an aide to Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy.. During the mid-1980s, he worked as an aide to Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy..

He served as an aide to Senator Edward M. Kennedy from 1986 to 1988, working on foreign affairs as assistant to Senior Foreign Policy Adviser Gregory Craig, later White House Counsel under President Barack Obama. An excellent pianist, Mitchell also played at social events in and around Washington, including public and private functions for Senator Kennedy.

Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Charlotte (née Mendelsohn) and Malcolm S. Mitchell, M.D., an academic medical oncologist and tumor immunologist, while his father was serving in the U.S. Public Health Service. His parents later settled in Orange, Connecticut, a suburb of New Haven, where he attended elementary, middle and high school. Mitchell graduated with a B.A. in foreign affairs, with a concentration in Soviet studies, from the University of Virginia in 1986. He attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, from 1989–1991, where he studied United States and East Asian diplomatic history and public international law, and was awarded a foreign language and area studies fellowship for the 1990-91 school year. He received a Master of Arts degree in law and diplomacy in 1991, earning a certificate for proficiency in Mandarin Chinese. From December 1988 to June 1989, he had worked as copy editor at The China Post, Taipei, Taiwan, at the time the largest English-language daily newspaper on Taiwan, where he first learned Mandarin Chinese and further studied the language at Nanjing University, China, in the summer of 1990.

He was raised within Georgia in Georgia and Connecticut as the son of medical parents. The year 2006 was the time he got married to Taiwanese reporter Lee Hun-min.

Derek Mitchell Net Worth

Derek Mitchell is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Derek Mitchell 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduation of the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs, he was awarded two certificates for Chinese Mandarin and a master’s diplomacy degree and a law degree at Tufts University.

He headed the California office of that campaign in 1988 of Democratic presidential candidate He helmed the California organization of the 1988 campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Dukakis and later assisted the California offices of the 1992 Clinton and Gore campaign. and later, he worked in his fellow campaigners in the California office of the Clinton as well as the Gore campaign.

Derek James Mitchell (born September 16, 1964) is an American diplomat with extensive experience in Asia policy. He was appointed by President Barack Obama as the first special representative and policy coordinator for Burma with rank of ambassador, and was sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on October 2, 2011. On June 29, 2012, the U.S. Senate confirmed him as the new United States Ambassador to Burma. On September 4, 2018, Mitchell succeeded Kenneth Wollack as president of the National Democratic Institute.

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Mitchell was appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs in the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense by President Obama, serving from 2009 to 2011. His duties included performing as second-in-command to the Assistant Secretary of Defense, responsible for Asia defense policy and more than 100 personnel encompassing three areas: East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and Afghanistan/Pakistan/Central Asia. He also served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense in his absence, and when the position was vacant for several months in 2011. Mitchell helped to shape and guide the direction of U.S. defense policy in Asia through regular contact with Secretary of Defense, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, and senior-level dialogues with inter- agency colleagues. Mitchell was the primary author of the Department of Defense’s East Asia Strategy Report (1998), still the latest such report (as of 2011). He also led the conduct of public outreach and drafted speeches outlining the Department of Defense’s strategic approach to East, Southeast and South Asia. He traveled extensively in Southeast Asia, including China, Japan, Thailand, Viet Nam and Cambodia.

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Derek Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Derek Mitchell celebrates birthday on September 16 of every year.

On January 13, 2012, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that “at the direction of President Obama, we will start the process of exchanging ambassadors with Burma”. On April 5, 2012, Foreign Policy magazine cited sources indicating that the Obama administration would nominate Mitchell as United States Ambassador to Burma. On May 17, 2012, President Obama officially nominated him as the first United States Ambassador to Burma since 1990, and the first non-career foreign service officer to hold that post. He was confirmed to the position by the U.S. Senate on June 29, 2012.