Mark McGovern is the Consul General of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines where he leads a very large full-service Consular office that includes American Citizen Services, Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Visas, Fraud Prevention, and Federal Benefits.

Previously, Consul General McGovern served as the Principal Officer of the U.S. Consulate General in Surabaya, Indonesia, where he led a multi-office interagency team in diplomatic engagements with 12 eastern Indonesia provinces and over a third of Indonesia's population. Prior to Surabaya, he served as the Countrywide Consular Coordinator for the U.S. Mission to
Vietnam and based in Ho Chi Minh City.

Mark McGovern joined the Department of State as an officer in 2002 and has also had diplomatic assignments in Japan, Saudi Arabia, China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. He also has worked in the Counterterrorism office and the Bureau of Consular Affairs Visa Office in Washington, DC. Prior to becoming an officer, he was a Diplomatic Courier, working from Seoul, Korea, and Frankfurt, Germany.

Before joining the Department of State, he worked for several years with the former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Honolulu, Montreal, and Washington. He also has previous experiences as a high school economics teacher, computer software trainer, Wienermobile driver, and as an entrepreneur doing on-the-road promotions for several large American companies. Mark McGovern graduated from university in New Jersey, which is also his home state.