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. His rank, as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was Minister-Counselor.
In 2021, Sievers became the inaugural director of the
American Jewish Committee
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations and, according to ''The New York Times'', is "widely regarded as the dean of American Jewish org ...
office in
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (, ; ar, أَبُو ظَبْيٍ ' ) is the capital and second-most populous city (after Dubai) of the United Arab Emirates. It is also the capital of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and the centre of the Abu Dhabi Metropolitan Area.
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.
Education
*BA, history,
University of Utah
The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...
, 1978
*Master of International Affairs
Columbia University
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1980
Career
Sievers 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
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
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
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(CPA) - a position for which he volunteered.
References
External links
Testimony to the Foreign Relations Committee
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Ambassadors of the United States to Oman
University of Utah alumni
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University alumni
United States Foreign Service personnel
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people