Deputy Chief of Mission
Mirembe Nantongo
Mirembe Nantongo took up her duties as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy Doha in July 2009. She most recently served as Political Officer at U.S. Embassy Dhaka and, until August 2008, as Deputy Public Affairs Counselor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Mirembe joined the Foreign Service in 1995. She has served as Vice Consul and Political-Economics officer at U.S. Embassy Bogota, Colombia; head of the Consular Section and Economics Officer in Muscat, Oman; Political-Military Officer at the State Department in Washington, DC, and Political Officer in Dakar, Senegal. From Senegal, she entered the State Department’s two-year Arabic language program, completing a year’s study in Washington and a second year in Tunis. She subsequently served as Public Affairs Officer in Doha, Qatar.
A naturalized U.S. citizen whose adopted state is Virginia, Mirembe was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania and is of Ugandan and Dutch origin. She was educated in Uganda and the United Kingdom and is a graduate of the University of Exeter in south-west England, where she studied French language and literature. She speaks Arabic, French and Spanish.
Her partner, Gary Mignano, also a Foreign Service Officer, is currently leading a Provincial Reconstruction Team in the province of Maysan in Iraq. Mirembe has two sons – Sebastian, 17, and Dominic, 9.