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Consul General Mark Scheland
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Mark Scheland is a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service with 24 years of experience in the Department of State. Granted recognition by the German Foreign Office on August 30, 2005, he became the 28th head of the U.S. consular representation in Leipzig since the establishment of a consulate in May 1826, and the sixth U.S. Consul General in Leipzig since German reunification.
Mr. Scheland served previously in the American Embassies in Islamabad (Pakistan), Muscat (Oman), Bonn and Berlin. In Washington, D.C., his early assignments were in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and as country officer for Germany in the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs. He undertook Arabic language training in Arlington, Virginia and Tunis. Prior to his transfer to Leipzig, Mr. Scheland was seconded for one year as a legislative fellow on the staff of United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, and then served 2002-03 as a senior watch officer in the State Department’s Operations Center. In August 2003 he moved to the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction in the Department’s Bureau of Nonproliferation.
The Department of State has commended Mr. Scheland’s performance with three Superior Honor Awards, one of them a group award, and on two occasions with the Meritorious Honor Award.
Mr. Scheland is a 1980 graduate of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana (BA in History) and of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (MS in Foreign Service, 1982). His undergraduate education included two semesters at the Universität Hamburg (1978-79). Mr. Scheland and his wife Elizabeth Lanzillo Scheland have a daughter, Nora, and three sons, Cullen, Charles, and Paul.
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