Robert B. Oakley

Robert B. Oakley

Robert Bigger Oakley (born March 12, 1931) is a retired American diplomat. Ambassador Oakley is a 1948 graduate of The South Kent School in Kent, CT. During his career as a Foreign Service Officer, Oakley served as United States Ambassador to Zaire, Somalia, and Pakistan, and later as a special envoy during the American involvement in Somalia in the early 1990s.

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