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Who is the new US ambassador for Malta?
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described newly-appointed ambassador Gina Abercombie-Winstanley as “one of the most experienced diplomats” at the State Department.
18 October 2011, 12:00am
Karl Stagno-Navarra
Karl Stagno-Navarra
2 min read
VIDEO: Courtesy US State Department, Washington DC
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, a career member of the US senior foreign service with the rank of minister-counselor, joined the US foreign service in 1985 and served as Consul in Baghdad, before being posted to Jakarta and Cairo. Today she works within the Office of the Coordinator for Counter-terrorism
Abercombie-Winstanley then served as Special Assistant for Middle Eastern and African Affairs to Deputy, and later, Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. After a year of advanced Arabic, she served as Political Officer at the Embassy in Tel Aviv with responsibility for the Gaza Strip.
Before her posting as Director of the Office of Egypt and the Levant under the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs where she handled the countries of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Jordan, she served as Chairperson for Middle East Area Studies at the Foreign Service Institute - the premier training facility for U.S. Diplomats; as Consul General in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Policy Advisor to the Director of the Near East–South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the Department of Defense; Senior Advisor for Middle Eastern Affairs at USUN; Director for Near East South Asian Affairs with responsibility for the Arabian Peninsula at the National Security Council of the White House; and Director for Legislative Affairs, also at the NSC.
Prior to that, she was awarded a Pearson fellowship and worked on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the Ranking Member, Senator Joseph Biden. Now she is the Deputy Coordinator for Programs and Policy in the Secretary’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism.
Abercrombie-Winstanley is the recipient of Senior Performance Pay, Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards, including “For acts of courage during an attack on the U.S. Consulate General, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on December 6, 2004 by al-Qa’ida terrorists.”
The new ambassador has a Bachelors degree from George Washington University and a Masters degree from Johns Hopkins University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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We are assuming the role of the unsinkable hospital ship in the Med, a logistical hub for more dictator toppling..... Remember the sprawling compund in ta qali, with enough space to have a garrison town!
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Congratulations to the new US Ambassador for a well deserved promotion. It is not easy as a career diplomat to be appointed as Head of Mission. Reading through HE curricul vitae I cannot raise concern as to whether we are being used as a listening post. HE is an expert on Middle East affairs, speaks arabic and is an authority on counter-terrorism. Hence, is the US govt concerned with possible terrorist attacks on Malta?
