Career U.S. Senior Foreign Service Officer
Retired as of May 2022, Mr. de la Rosa most recently served as the USAID Mission Director to Serbia.
As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Mr. de la Rosa worked for 30 years overseas in a variety of senior leadership positions throughout Latin America, Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East including Afghanistan for three years, and the West Bank & Gaza Mission during a tumultuous period of time -- marked by the second intifada, Iraq and Lebanon wars, and Israel’s disengagement from Gaza.
He joined USAID after having served for eight years in the Navy -- initially as a Surface Warfare Officer, and subsequently as a Special Operations Officer. Born in Austin, Texas, he grew up on Florida’s Space Coast in Satellite Beach, Florida, where his father worked at NASA since its inception until he retired 30 years later in 1989.
Mr. de la Rosa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, a Master’s Degree in Operations Research from the London School of Economics, and a Master’s Degree in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University in Washington, D.C.