Christopher W. S. Ross (born October 4, 1943) is an Ecuadorian-born American former diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Algeria and Syria. On January 7, 2009, he was appointed as the UN envoy to Western Sahara. He resigned in March 2017.[1]
He was until recently[when?] a special adviser for the Middle East and North Africa at the U.S. mission to the United Nations. His father was Ambassador Claude Gordon "Tony" Ross. In 2003 he was the US State Department Senior Adviser for Arab World Public Diplomacy.[2]
Notes and references
- ^ "L'Émissaire de l'ONU pour le Sahara occidental démissionne". Le Monde.fr. 6 March 2017.
- ^ US State Department profile on Ross
External links
- Online NewsHour: Christopher Ross -- January 16, 2002 Ross discusses scope of public diplomacy campaign
- State Department Archived Biographies -- Christopher W.S. Ross - Coordinator For Counterterrorism
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