David Schlaefer

David Allen Schlaefer is an American career diplomat and author. He is a member of the Senior Foreign Service in the United States Foreign Service and the current Deputy Counsel General at the U.S. Mission in Hong Kong. Schlaefer has served on previous diplomatic missions to Brazil, Finland, Iraq, Japan, Mexico, Romania, Poland, and Ukraine. Schlaefer is also an author of a series of books based on Finnish mythology.