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Ambassador (retired) Allan Mustard is a member of the Advisory Board of the Caspian Policy Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, as well as similar boards for three commercial startups unrelated to cartography or data management. He was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan on November 25, 2014 and retired from that position in June 2019 after almost 38 years of public service. He previously served as an agricultural officer at U.S. Embassies in New Delhi, Mexico City, Moscow, Vienna, and at the American Consulate General in Istanbul. He managed the computer center for the Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2000-2002. He speaks fluent Russian, basic German and very basic Spanish, and has written articles for both Wikipedia and the OSM wiki. He delivered the keynote address at the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5DxV7cXgQ&list=PLQNy8KsDknCr92fIXYcOKL42U35wRAV9Y&index=3 2016 SOTM] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeY6yU8uYPc 2020 SOTM], the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpHLulm-Wq4 banquet speech at the 2019 NACIS] conference on use of OSM in mapping Turkmenistan, and the keynote address to the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6JYUTvRsMw OpenStreetMap US: Connect 2020] virtual conference. He was also interviewed for a [https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-29 GeoMob podcast] in Summer 2020. Ambassador Mustard resides in Falls Church, Virginia, United States.