Ambassador

Deputy Chief of Mission William K. Grant

DCM Bill Grant...

Mr. Grant is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.  He arrived in Beirut in June 2007 after serving as Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge d'Affaires at the American Embassy in Valletta, Malta from 2004 to 2007.  He also has served in Iraq, Italy, Argentina, Poland, the U.S. Mission to the UN and Washington.

In Iraq, Mr. Grant headed the office of the Coalition Provisional Authority in the northern province of Sulaimaniya during the first half of 2004.  From 2000 to 2004, he served at the State Department in Washington working on Iraq issues and as executive assistant to Assistant Secretary for Economic Affairs Tony Wayne.  He was an economic officer in Rome, Italy from 1997 to 2000.

From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Grant was a member of the U.S. delegation to the UN General Assembly, focused on peacekeeping financing and UN reform and management.  He was an economic officer in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1989-92 and in the State Department office covering Argentina and Chile 1987-89.  He joined the Foreign Service in 1984 and his first assignment was as a vice consul in Krakow, Poland.

Mr. Grant was raised in Fairfield, Connecticut.  He attended schools there and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.  He is married to Mary Knight, also from Fairfield, and they are the parents of a son and daughter.