(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The US Senate has confirmed the appointment of David Hale as the country`s next ambassador to Pakistan, officials said. Hale is a career member of the Foreign Service and is currently the US ambassador to Lebanon.
He replaces Ambassador Richard Olson who came to Islamabad in 2012, when then Ambassador Cameron Munter resigned after the US raid in Abbottabad that killed Osama bin Laden.
Hale was the special envoy for Middle East peace between 2011 and 2013, a deputy envoy from2009 to 2011, and US ambassador to Jordan between 2005 and 2008, after multiple tours in Jordan and Lebanon.
He has also served in Tunisia, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and as a member of the US Mission to the United Nations. In Washington, Hale served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for Israel, Egypt and the Levant and as director for Israel Palestinian affairs.
He held several staff posts, including executive assistant to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In 2013, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave him the Distinguished Service Award. He has several Department of State Superior and Meritorious Honour awards.
The new US envoy for Islamabad was born in 1961, speaks Arabic, is a graduate of Georgetown University`s School of Foreign Service, and is a native of New Jersey. Hale was appointed ambassador to Pakistan on March 10, 2015.
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