US President Joe Biden has just appointed the former US Ambassador to Morocco (1997-2001), Edward Gabriel, as a member of the board of trustees of the United States Institute for Peace, a government agency founded by Congress with a mission to prevent and attempt to resolve wars abroad.
A new challenge for the diplomat who became the 16th United States Ambassador to Morocco in 1997. Edward Gabriel has just joined the board of directors of the United States Institute for Peace as a member. This former US ambassador to Morocco was appointed to this new post by Joe Biden.
Founded in 1984 by the United States Congress, the Institute’s mission is to prevent and resolve international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and democratic transformation, and consolidate peace. Thus, it works with governments and civil societies. This is to say that Edward Gabriel is on familiar ground.
Indeed, the former US Ambassador to Morocco has extensive experience in international relations. He has had to organize multilateral political forums dealing with issues of national security, trade and energy. He has been involved in Russian nuclear non-proliferation issues, and has actively advised the US government on political concerns in the Middle East.
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Currently, Edward Gabriel is the chairman of the American Task Force on Lebanon, a nonprofit organization that seeks to strengthen cultural ties between the United States and Lebanon. In addition, he was the founding CEO of one of Washington DC’s largest public affairs companies, the Madison Public Affairs Group. Edward Gabriel is also a former senior economic analyst at the US Department of Energy and founding executive director of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes, an association of Native American tribes who owned energy resources. He was also director of the energy project at the Keystone Policy Center, a pioneer in the reform of the electricity sector.
The former United States Ambassador to Morocco sits on the boards of the American schools in Tangier and Marrakech, the Keystone Policy Center, AMIDEAST and the Lebanese American University. He has received numerous awards, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and ACCESS Arab American of the Year, among others, and has been recognized by the FBI for his work on bilateral security issues. He is a recipient of the National Order of the Cedar of Lebanon and the Order of Ouissam Alaouite in Morocco.
Ambassador Gabriel holds a BS degree in Commerce and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Gannon University. Note that his appointment by Biden as a member of the United States Institute for Peace must be confirmed by the Senate.
