Robert E. Gribbin III (born February 5, 1946 Durham, North Carolina) is a retired American ambassador to Rwanda (1996 – 1999) and the Central African Republic (1993 – 1995)[1] and author of In the Aftermath of Genocide: The U.S. role in Rwanda.
After college, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer working with a team of civil engineers on implementing a water distribution system.
When he returned to the United States, he became a project manager with Head Start (program) in Atlanta.
[2] His first posting in the Foreign Service was in the Central African Republic "notorious at the time [for its] its rather despotic ruler, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who later became emperor.
But he was not the emperor in 1974; he was cher Papa, maréchal and président à vie.