Andrew Robert Young (born April 18, 1961)[2] is an American diplomat who has served as United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso from 2016 to 2020.

He attended University of California Berkeley and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

He then transferred to Washington, D.C., in 1993 to work at the India and Bhutan Desk in the Bureau of South Asian Affairs.

[3] From 2000 to 2003 Young served as deputy principal officer in Auckland, New Zealand, after which he was the foreign policy adviser to Senator Joe Lieberman.

He returned to foreign service work in 2005 when he was given an assignment in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the Italy and San Marino Desk, and in 2007 he was sent to be political officer in the Paris, France consulate.