Chuka Asike

Chuka Asike is a career Foreign Service Officer. He serves as Deputy Chief of Mission to the U.S. Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and began his assignment in August 2025. Previously, he served as the Principal Officer at U.S. Consulate Fukuoka Japan from June 2022 to June 2025, where he was responsible for covering all southwest Japan, including engaging with two strategic U.S. military bases in Fukuoka’s consular district. Before Japan, Chuka was a Senior Advisor at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Development Results and Accountability for one year, where he focused on U.S. multilateral development bank (MDB) policies and MDB projects and investments in Asia and Africa. Before Treasury, Chuka was a Special Assistant and Chief of Staff to the State Department’s Assistant Secretary of African Affairs. Prior to the Bureau of African Affairs, he served as a Financial Economist in the Department’s Office of Development Finance within the Economic Bureau. In the Economic Bureau, he served as the Department’s principal liaison to the Asian Development Bank. Also, while in Washington DC, he was seconded for one year to the World Bank’s Office of the U.S. Executive Director as the Department’s representative. Chuka’s other overseas assignments include Chief of the Political and Economic Section at U.S. Embassy Luanda, Angola and Economic officer in Dubai, UAE and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Before joining the State Department in 2006, Chuka was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York in the Global Investment Research division from 2002 to 2004. He was also a graduate fellow at The Cohen Group in Washington DC in 2005, where he provided strategic guidance on international political and economic topics to the firm’s clients. 

Chuka holds a bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in chemistry from Howard University and has a Master of Science in Foreign Service with a specialization in economics from Georgetown University.  He speaks Portuguese, French, Japanese, and has studied Amharic.  He has lived in Japan, Angola, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali and Dubai, UAE. Calling Washington DC home, Chuka and his wife Jacqueline have a son Issey, a daughter Soriya, and their beagle Rubble. Chuka is an avid soccer and tennis player and enjoys skiing in the winter.