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Marc Ginsberg
Marc Ginsberg, former presidential advisor and United States ambassador, has over 30 years of international, commercial, legal and government affairs experience. Since 1971 he has held many prominent public- and private-sector positions focusing on foreign policy, defense, trade and investment development throughout the Middle East. He is responsible for coordinating global business diplomacy development and ongoing strategic client relationships and business planning for APCO throughout the Middle East, and manages Layalina Arab Television Productions, a private, nonprofit Arab language television production company headquartered in Washington, D.C., and Dubai, UAE.
Ambassador Ginsberg served as a legislative assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy; special assistant to the secretary of state; deputy senior advisor to the president for Middle East policy; U.S. ambassador to Morocco; and special U.S. coordinator for Mediterranean trade, investment and security affairs.
He serves as a special advisor to the Department of Defense Special Operations Command and an advisor to the U.S. Department of State on outreach initiatives to the Muslim world. As Fox News Channel’s global affairs analyst, he is a nationally recognized authority on U.S.-Middle East relations and international events and is a nationally recognized foreign policy opinion editorial writer and blogger whose writings appear in major U.S. media outlets, including The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy and the Huffington Post.
Aside from his work with the federal government, he served as senior partner and chief financial officer at the international firm of Galland, Kharasch, Morse & Garfinkle. In this capacity, he represented international investment banks in emerging market penetration, consulted on multinational aviation issues, and created strategy for telecommunications and energy companies with emphasis on project finance, equity investments, international initial public offerings, joint venture development and privatizations. He is an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and serves on the board of several major humanitarian organizations focused on Middle East development.
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