Daniel Rubinstein

Daniel Rubinstein (born 1967) is a United States Foreign Service Officer who has served as consul general, the top U.S. official at the Jerusalem consulate and directed the State Department’s Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced in March 2014 that Rubinstein would replace Robert Stephen Ford as the United States Special Envoy for Syria. And since October 2015, he has been the United States Ambassador to Tunisia.

Career

Rubinstein is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Mr. Rubinstein also served as Consul General and Chief of Mission in Jerusalem from 2009 to 2012, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan from 2005 to 2008, and as Chief of the Civilian Observer Unit in the Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai, Egypt. Earlier, he served as Director of the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs in the Department of State from 2004 to 2005. His foreign languages are Arabic, Hebrew, and Portuguese.

Daniel Rubinstein, one of the State Department’s leading “Arabists,” replaced Ambassador Robert Ford as the US Special Envoy to Syria.