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

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office in

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Education

*BA, history,

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, 1978 *Master of International Affairs

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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

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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

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(CPA) - a position for which he volunteered.

References

External links

Testimony to the Foreign Relations Committee
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