11 Facts About Lewis Lukens

Lewis Alan Lukens is a retired American diplomat who served as the US Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.

Lewis Lukens attended Princeton University, where he was awarded an AB degree in history.

Lewis Lukens received a master's degree from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Lewis Lukens joined the United States Foreign Service in July 1989, serving in Southern China, Ivory Coast, Australia, Ireland, Iraq, Canada, Senegal, and the United Kingdom.

From 2008 to 2011, Lewis Lukens was executive director of the US Department of State's Executive Secretariat, directing management support and overseas travel for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Lewis Lukens testified under oath in a legal case related to the Hillary Clinton email controversy.

From 2011 to 2014, Lewis Lukens was US Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.

From August 2016 to January 2019, Lewis Lukens served as the Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in London.

On June 5,2017, while serving as Acting Ambassador, Lewis Lukens tweeted his support for London mayor Sadiq Khan, after President Donald Trump had sent a tweet critical of Khan following a terrorist incident.

In February 2018, Lewis Lukens advised his superior, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom Robert Wood Johnson IV, not to follow through on President Trump's request to try to get the British government to steer the British Open golf tournament to the Trump Turnberry resort in Scotland; Lewis Lukens warned that it would be an unethical use of the presidency for private gain.

Lewis Lukens alleged that Johnson had tried to use his position as ambassador to persuade the British government to move the lucrative British Open golf tournament to Trump's Turnberry golf resort.