Mark Toner

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Mark Toner
In officeAugust 7, 2024 – August 4, 2025
Joe BidenDonald Trump
Michael A. McCarthy
In officeJanuary 20, 2017 – April 24, 2017
Donald Trump
John Kirby
Heather Nauert
In officeJune 1, 2015 – May 2017
Barack ObamaDonald Trump
Marie Harf
In officeMay 2011 – June 2013Acting: January 2010 – April 2011
Barack Obama
Robert A. Wood
Marie Harf
1964 (age 61–62)United States
University of Notre DameIndustrial College of the Armed Forces

Mark Christopher Toner (born 1964) is a U.S. Foreign Service officer and former Spokesperson for the United States Department of State. He had served as the United States ambassador to Liberia.

Toner was raised in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, graduating from the Salesianum School in nearby Wilmington, Delaware in 1982. He earned a B.A. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1986 and later studied journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. Toner received a graduate degree from the National Defense University’s Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He was also a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia.

As a career Foreign Service Officer, Toner served overseas in West Africa and Europe. Toner was the Information Officer in Dakar, Senegal, the Public Affairs Officer in Kraków, Poland, and the Spokesman for the U.S. Mission to NATO, in Brussels, Belgium. In Washington, Toner worked as a senior advisor for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; as a Senior Watch Officer in the Department's Operations Center; and as the Director of the European Bureau’s Press and Public Outreach Division.

Toner currently holds the rank of Minister-Counselor.

Toner was deputy spokesperson for the State Department from 2010 to 2013, serving with Spokesperson Victoria Nuland. Toner became Deputy Spokesperson again on June 1, 2015. Following Rear Admiral John Kirby's departure as the Department's Chief Spokesperson on January 20, 2017, Toner became Acting Spokesperson. He announced the pass of the spokesperson baton to Heather Nauert on April 27, 2017.

On March 27, 2023, President Joe Biden nominated Toner to be the next ambassador to Liberia. He was confirmed by the Senate by voice vote on May 2, 2024. He arrived in Monrovia on August 2, 2024. Toner presented his credentials to Liberian President Joseph Boakai on August 7, 2024.

Toner speaks French and Polish.

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