Marc Jonathan Sievers is the retired U.S. Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, where he served from January 7, 2016 to November 30, 2019.[1] His rank, as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was Minister-Counselor.[2]
In 2021, Sievers became the inaugural director of the American Jewish Committee office in Abu Dhabi.[3][4]
Education
edit- BA, history, University of Utah, 1978
- Master of International Affairs Columbia University 1980 [2]
Career
editSievers entered the Foreign Service in 1981. He was the first person to serve as Diplomat-in-Residence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2014–15). Within the State Department, he's served as U.S. deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affaires in Cairo and various posts all over the Middle East including Baghdad, Tel Aviv and Algiers. He was a senior adviser to Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs as part of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) - a position for which he volunteered.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Ambassador Marc J. Sievers".
- ^ a b "Ambassador Marc J Sievers". US Embassy in Oman. US State Department. Archived from the original on 2019-11-11.
- ^ "Marc J. Sievers | AJC". 5 February 2022.
- ^ "AJC Opens Office in Abu Dhabi". 4 October 2021.
- ^ "Marc J.Sievers". The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Retrieved 11 November 2019.