Uncle Nate & Aunt Laura

 Nathan Macklin is currently serving as the Political-Military Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, a position he started in 2013.  Prior to serving in Kenya, Nate served two years in the Executive Secretariat, also known as “The Line,” at the Department of State, during which he traveled to over 30 countries on the advance teams for U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.  He also helped coordinate their participation at the annual UN General Assembly in New York.  From 2010-2011, Nate served as a Watch Officer/Senior Watch Officer (WO/SWO) in the Operations Center, the Department’s crisis response office, during which he and a team of other Foreign Service Officers tracked emerging world events.  In this capacity, Nate provided daily briefings to senior Department of State officials on events such as the NATO action in Libya and various protests at U.S. Embassies worldwide during the Arab Awakening.  Prior to the Operations Center, Nate served two years at the U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras where he was a consular officer and political officer.  Nate received an honorable mention for Secretary Clinton’s 2011 Human Rights and Democracy Achievement Award based on his political reporting on the human rights situation in Honduras following the June 2009 coup.  Nate’s first tour was as a consular officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

Nate is married to Laura Macklin and together they are expecting their first child in January 2015.  Nate is originally from Casper, Wyoming, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Gonzaga University and a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.  Nate joined the Foreign Service in 2005 as part of the Department’s Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program.