Eugene L. Scassa

Eugene Luiga Scassa (February 6, 1939 – March 22, 2012) was an American diplomat who was a career Foreign Service Officer. He served as the U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belize from 1990 until 1994.^[1]

Scassa was born in Monaca, Pennsylvania on February 6, 1939. In addition, Scassa was the executive director of the Bureau for Inter-American Affairs, and the Assistant to U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright. He began the ESMOAS (then called the San Antonio Model OAS) in 1995.^[2] Scassa died on March 22, 2012, at the age of 73.^[3]