September 8, 2003: Headlines: COS - Iran: Diplomacy: Iranian Studies: Iran RPCV John W. Limbert heads American Foreign Service Association
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September 8, 2003: Headlines: COS - Iran: Diplomacy: Iranian Studies: Iran RPCV John W. Limbert heads American Foreign Service Association
Iran RPCV John W. Limbert heads American Foreign Service Association
Ambassador Limbert holds the Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award, Superior Honor Award, and Award for Valor, the last received after fourteen months as a hostage in Iran.
Iran RPCV John W. Limbert heads American Foreign Service Association
John W. Limbert
President, American Foreign Service Association (AFSA)
John Limbert, a Senior Foreign Service Officer, began serving as president of AFSA on September 8, 2003.
Prior to this appointment, he was Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (2000-2003), While serving as Ambassador, he was one of the first civilian officials to enter Baghdad in April 2003, with the Organization for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. There he was responsible for cultural affairs, including restoring the looted Iraqi Museum. Earlier he had been Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism in the U.S. State Department; member of the State Department’s Senior Seminar (1997-98); Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Conakry, Guinea (1994-97); and Director of Orientation at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute in Washington (1992-94).
A career Foreign Service Officer since 1973, Ambassador Limbert’s overseas experience also includes tours in Algeria, Djibouti, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. From 1981 to 1984 he taught Political Science at the U.S. Naval Academy, and in 1991-92 he was a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs.
Born in Washington, D.C. and a resident of Stockbridge, Vermont since 1980, Ambassador Limbert graduated from the D.C. public schools and holds his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University, the last in History and Middle Eastern Studies. Before joining the Foreign Service, he taught in Iran, both as a Peace Corps Volunteer (1964-66) and as an English instructor at Shiraz University (1969-72). He has written numerous articles on Middle Eastern subjects and has authored Iran: At War with History (Westview Press, 1987) and Shiraz in the Age of Hafez (University of Washington Press, 2004).
Ambassador Limbert holds the Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award, Superior Honor Award, and Award for Valor, the last received after fourteen months as a hostage in Iran. He also holds the American Foreign Service Association’s Rivkin Award for creative dissent. His foreign languages are Persian, Arabic, and French. He is married and has a son and a daughter.
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