J. Michael Cleverley
Biographic Information
J. Michael Cleverley ("Mike") spent over thirty years as an American Foreign Service officer with the US Department of State. His hobby is writing. Now officially retired, he still takes temporary assignments with the State Department and teaches university political science and economics.
Over his State Department career, Mike Cleverley was Deputy US Permanent Representative to the UN agencies in Rome and Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassies in Athens and Helsinki. He also worked at the American missions in Pretoria, London, Milan. He holds dipomas from the National War College, the Harvard Kennedy School, and Brigham Young University. Mike was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and speaks Finnish, Italian, and Greek.
Michael and his wife, Seija Kaarina, have four children. Seija Kaarina is the daughter of Finnish Karelian refugee parents. She moved to the United States in 1969.
