Marc Ginsberg

Marc Ginsberg
Born	Marc Charles Ginsberg New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	American University (B.A.) Georgetown University (M.B.A.candidate & J.D.)
Occupation	Former US ambassador, presidential advisor, political commentator

Marc Charles Ginsberg has served as US ambassador to Morocco from 1994-1998, Deputy Senior Adviser to the President of the United States for Middle East Policy (1978-1981), Legislative Assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy (1970-1977), CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Al Arabiya, CBC and Fox News, contributor, and is currently the senior vice president of APCO Worldwide and president of Layalina Productions, Inc.^[1][2]. He is a founding director of Sutton Place Gourmet, and practiced international corporate law in the U.S. and the Middle East from 1981-1993. He also served as Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Media in the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign and in 2000 was Al Gore's co-coordinator for national security in his presidential campaign.

Early life

Ginsberg was born in New York and from 1960–1968, was raised in Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, and fluently speaks English, Hebrew, Arabic, and French.^[2][3][4][5] He has earned a B.A. from American University, an [[Master of Business Administration|M.B.A.]candidate], as well as a J.D., both from Georgetown University.^[2]

Career

As a college freshman, in 1971, Ginsberg began serving as a legislative assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy until 1977.^[1][5] That year, the United States Secretary of State (Cyrus Vance) appointed him to serve as White House Liaison. Under President Jimmy Carter, from 1977 until 1981, he was Deputy Senior Advisor to the President for Middle East Policy. In 1994, he was appointed Ambassador to Morocco by President Bill Clinton making Ginsberg the first Jewish American to be appointed as an ambassador in an Arab country.^[3][5] He was the first US diplomat to Morocco to be awarded the Highest Order of Ouissam — a kind of knighthood — by Hassan II, the king of Morocco at that time.^[3] Between 1998 and 1999, he served as the US Special Coordinator for Mediterranean Trade, Investment and Security Affairs.^[2] Ginsberg has also worked as a reviewer of US foreign and economic policy for groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Brookings Institution.^[5]

As senior vice president of APCO Worldwide — a global corporate public affairs and communication consultancy — he coordinates strategic client relationships and business planning throughout the Middle East.^[6]

He also serves as president of Layalina Productions. Layalina is a non-profit producer of commercial Arabic language television, the first US organization to produce such content for broadcasting in the Arabic world.^[2][5] Layalina has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and in Amman, Jordan.^[6]

He regularly contributes articles to prominent outlets such as The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Weekly Standard, the International Herald Tribune, and the Baltimore Sun, and the Huffington Post.