Background
Lu was born in Huntington Beach, California.
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Donald Lu
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He graduated from Princeton University with Bachelor of Arts and Master"s degrees in International relations.
Career
He was the immediate past Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in New Delhi, India. Since late 2014, he has been the United States Ambassador to Albania. Lu was a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1988-1990 helping restore hand-dug water wells, and teach health education and latrine construction.
Lu joined the United States Foreign Service in 1990 and held posts in Pakistan, India, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan and Washington.
He has been working with the State Department for over 25 years. Before he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States. Embassy in New Delhi, he served as the Chargé d"affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission for United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan from July 4, 2009 through July 2010, when the office of the Ambassador to Azerbaijan had not been filled yet.
He was one of proponents of immediate appointment of United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan. In May 2010, the current Ambassador Matthew Bryza was already nominated to take the post and Lu was assigned to India in July 2010.
The new post in New Delhi is Lu"s second assignment to India.
He was the Deputy Chief of Mission during president Obama"s visit to New Delhi. He had previously worked as staff assistant to Ambassador Frank Wisner and as the political officer covering Kashmir and India-Pakistan relations in late 1990s. Before moving to Tirana, Albania he worked on the Ebola crisis in West Africa as Deputy Coordinator of Ebola response.
He was sworn in as an United States. Ambassador to the Republic of Albania on December 17, 2014.
He moved to Tirana, Albania in late 2014 as the United States Ambassador. This was his first official post as an Ambassador and not the Deputy Chief of Mission.
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