# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-yamamoto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:08:07.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-yamamoto"
name: "Donald Yamamoto"
slug: "donald-yamamoto"
description: "Donald Yukio Yamamoto is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Somalia from 2018 to 2021. Before that he was the acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, with a term of appointment starting September 3, 2017 until July 23, 2018. Yamamoto previously served as the Senior Vice President of International Programs and Outreach at the National Defense University from 2016 to 2017. Prior to that, he was senior advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service on personnel reform from 2015 to 2016; he served as Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Mission Somalia office in Mogadishu in 2016; and in senior positions in Kabul, Mazar e-Sharif, and Bagram, Afghanistan from 2014 to 2015."
tagline: "American diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donald_Y._Yamamoto_official_photo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-03-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.83
  momentum:             0.3007518796992481
  historical:           5.676530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Yamamoto"
    title: "Donald Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "دونالد ياماموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Yamamoto"
    title: "Donald Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Yamamoto"
    title: "Donald Yamamoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%A2%E3%83%88"
    title: "ドナルド・ヤマモト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%2C_%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4"
    title: "Ямамото, Дональд"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump