Mark Stroh joined the U.S. Embassy in Denmark as Deputy Chief of Mission in June 2025.
Mr. Stroh is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, having joined the Department of State in 2003. 
He most recently served as a Senior Advisor on Ukraine’s economic recovery at the Department of State. Previously he served as the U.S. Consul General in Erbil, Iraq, Team Leader for U.S. Embassy Kyiv’s external operations platform based in Rzeszow, Poland, Consul General in Karachi, Pakistan, Acting Assistant Secretary and Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Global Public Affairs, and Team Leader of the Syria Transition Assistance Response Team (START) Forward in northeastern Syria. For his service in Syria, Mr. Stroh earned the State Department’s Ryan C. Crocker Award for Outstanding Leadership in Expeditionary Diplomacy and the Department of Defense’s Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award. He has also served in Kuwait City, Kuwait; Basra and Al-Hillah, Iraq; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Kabul, Afghanistan; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as well as in various assignments in Washington with the National Security Council and for the Secretary of State.
Before joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Stroh was a journalist working for several daily and weekly publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer. Mr. Stroh has a BA in History and Political Science from Randolph-Macon College and an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.