DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION

Christopher W. Murray Biography

Deputy Chief of Mission Christopher W. Murray

Mr. Murray has served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, since September 2004.

He was assigned to the Department of State from 2000 to 2004, first as Deputy Director of the Office of European Union Affairs, and, subsequently, as Director of the Office of Policy Coordination in the Bureau of Nonproliferation. .

Mr. Murray served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Algiers, Algeria, from 1998 to 2000. He was Chief of the Political Section at the U. S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, from 1996 to 1998. He studied Arabic at the Foreign Service Institute's long term Arabic language training program from 1994 to 1996. From 1992 to 1994, he was assigned to the State Department's Office of UN Political Affairs, where he was responsible for Middle East issues.

From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Murray was a political officer at the United States Mission to the European Union in Brussels. He served in the Department of State in Washington, D.C., from 1983 to 1988, first as country desk officer for Somalia and later as a political-military officer in the European Bureau's Office of NATO Affairs. His preceding assignments were economic-commercial officer at the American Consulate General in Lubumbashi, the Congo, and vice consul at the American Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.

Mr. Murray received a B.A. in government from Lawrence University and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Middle East Institute. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on U.S. European relations. He speaks French, Arabic, and Dutch.

Mr. Murray was born on October 4, 1953, in St. Louis Missouri. He has a son and a daughter.

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