Christopher J. McMullen (1952–) was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. His post as US ambassador to Angola commenced in October 2010 thought to June 12, 2013.McMullen was raised in Pennsylvania, graduated from Georgetown University with a PhD in history in 1980 as well as graduating from the National War College. He was later employed at Georgetown teaching Latin American history which he also taught at George Mason University. He also worked in the office of Senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) as a foreign affairs fellow and was also a senior analyst for the Department of Defense.McMullen and his wife were co-plaintiffs in a suit “filed against the governments of Sudan and Iran regarding responsibility for the 1998 terrorist bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.”