On April 15, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Rachna Sachdeva Korhonen as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Mali. On April 25, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Rachna Korhonen is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service class of Counselors. She currently serves as a Deputy Assistant Secretary and the Executive Director of the combined Executive Offices of the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. Previously, Korhonen was the Consul General and Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate in Dharan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She also led the Management Section of the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and, in Washington, she served as a Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Management. Among her other assignments, Korhonen was the Supervisory General Services Officer and Senior Human Resources Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the Political Chief of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kirkuk, Iraq. She also had assignments at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait and the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai, India.
Korhonen earned her B.S. from Empire State College. She speaks Hindi, French, Finnish, and Arabic.
