Chargé d’Affaires Ambassador John P. Desrocher takes up his duties at the US Embassy in Cairo
Ambassador John Desrocher is the associate commander of the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy at the National Defense University. From 2017 to 2020 he was US Ambassador to the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria. From September 2014 to August 2017 he was Deputy Secretary of State for Egypt and Maghreb Affairs. Previously, he was deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Baghdad. In addition, from 2009 to 2010 he worked in Baghdad as the Council of Ministers for Economic Coordination and was responsible for economic policy issues between the USA and Iraq. He has meanwhile served at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director of the Office for Iraq Affairs and briefly as Acting Deputy Secretary of State for Maghreb Affairs. From 2006 to 2009 he was US Consul General in Auckland.
Ambassador Desrocher has extensive experience in international trade and in the Arab world. Immediately prior to his posting to Auckland, he served as an adviser on economic and political affairs at the US Embassy in Cairo and also served in Washington, including Jerusalem, Monrovia, Bonn and the Office of the US Trade Representative.
Ambassador Desrocher is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a multiple recipient of the State Department’s Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. He speaks French and German.
