Deputy Chief of Mission
Eric Rubin
Eric Rubin is a career foreign service officer. With a B.A. in history from Yale University (1983), Mr. Rubin joined the State Department in 1985 following two years as a reporter trainee at the New York Times. His overseas assignments included working as the political and human rights officer in Honduras (1986-1988), Deputy Political Counselor in Kyiv (1994-1996), and Consul General in Chiang Mai, Thailand (2001-2004).
His Washington assignments include the State Department Operations Center (1989); the Office of Soviet Union Affairs (1989-1991); regional and security affairs officer for Central and Eastern Europe (1991-1993); special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs (1996-1997); Assistant White House Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs and NSC Director for Public Affairs (1997); special assistant to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Pickering (1998-1999); Director of the Office of Policy Planning and Coordination of the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (2004-2006). He most recently served as Executive Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
Mr. Rubin was Dean and Virginia Rusk Fellow and a resident associate at Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of Diplomacy from 1999-2000. He speaks Thai, Spanish, French, Ukrainian and Russian.
His wife, Nicole Simmons, is a research associate at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. They have two children.
