David Hale was sworn in as United States Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

United States Ambassador to Jordan

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 on November 2, 2005. He is currently the United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace

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Hale had been serving as Deputy Chief of Mission

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 in Amman

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 since July 2003 and as Chargé d'affaires

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 since July 2004. Previously, he was the State Department's

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 Director of the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut

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, Lebanon

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, and Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State

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. Previous tours were at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations

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, Beirut, Amman, Manama

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, and Dhahran

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. He has held several staff positions in the Department.

Mr. Hale joined the Foreign Service

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 in 1984 and studied Arabic

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 at the Foreign Service Institute

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's Field School in Tunisia

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. He is a graduate of Georgetown University

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’s School of Foreign Service

Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

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 and a permanent resident of Princeton

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, New Jersey

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