Ambassador Shaun E. Donnelly has served in various senior diplomatic and commercial positions in Washington and abroad during his distinguished 35-year professional career. In 2010, he served as vice president of Middle East affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C, where he directed a department focused on advocating stronger bilateral trade and commercial relations in support of greater U. S. business investments in the Middle East. Ambassador Donnelly had previously been senior director for international business policy at the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), where he worked on investment policy, regulatory and standards matters, exports controls, intellectual property, and customs and border issues.

Before his positions at the chamber and at NAM, Donnelly had been a career foreign service officer at the U.S. Department of State, and spent time as the U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and to the Republic of Maldives. He previously served as the assistant U.S. trade representative for Europe and the Middle East; as principal deputy assistant secretary of state and as special negotiator for agricultural biotechnology, both in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs; and as deputy assistant secretary of state for trade policy and programs. He represented the U.S. at governing board meetings of the International Energy Agency and was chairman of the IEA Standing Group on Long-Term Cooperation. In assignments as a deputy assistant secretary of state, he was responsible for international trade policy, energy policy and economic sanctions. Donnelly had also been posted as a diplomat in U.S. embassies in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

Donnelly has been recognized with several honors, including the U.S. Department of State’s Career Achievement Award, a Superior Honor Award and the Cordell Hull Award for excellence in international economic policy.

Donnelly is a member of the American Foreign Service Association; the International Executive Service Corps, where he serves as a board member; and the Executive Council on Diplomacy, where he is a member of the Ambassadors Advisory Board.

A graduate of Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis., with a B.A. in economics, Donnelly also has an M.A. in economics from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

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