John Creamer is a professor of practice at SIA, bringing extensive policy and operational experience—both in Washington, D.C., and abroad—as a senior U.S. diplomat working on security, law enforcement, migration, commercial, governance, political and human rights issues primarily in the Western Hemisphere. He is a career Foreign Service Officer who served in numerous roles with the U.S. Department of State from 1986 to 2023. Most recently, Creamer was the acting vice chancellor and assistant professor at the College of International Security Affairs at the National Defense University, where he taught national security strategy, statecraft, and irregular warfare. From 2018 to 2021, he served as chargé d’affaires/deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. In addition to Mexico, his foreign tours include Nicaragua, South Africa, Haiti, Argentina, Colombia, and Bolivia, where he served as chargé d’affairés for three years.
Outside the Department of State, Creamer served as the civilian deputy to the commander and senior foreign policy advisor at the U.S. Southern Command (SouthCom) in Miami. At SouthCom, he coordinated security policy with the Department of State and ambassadors in the field and directed the Command’s strategic communications, public affairs, and human rights offices.
