David Welch

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C. David Welch is the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs of the United States. He served from 2001 to 2005 as the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt.

Welch was born in Munich in 1953. He studied at the London School of Economics in 1973 and '74, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University (1975). He holds a graduate degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University.

David Welch served as the Lebanon Desk Officer as well as in Islamabad (1979-81), Damascus (1984-6), Amman (1986-8), and Riyadh (1992-5), before taking the job of ambassador to Egypt from 2001 to 2005.

He is assisted by four deputy assistant secretaries of state for near eastern affairs: Gordon Gray, Robert Danin, Scott Carpenter, and Lawrence Butler.

He speaks Spanish and Arabic.