Career
United States. Secretary of State John Kerry announced in March 2014 that Rubinstein would replace Robert Stephen Ford as the United States Special Envoy for Syria. And since October 2015, he has been the United States Ambassador to Tunisia. Rubinstein is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.
Earlier, he served as Director of the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs in the Department of State from 2004 to 2005.
His foreign languages are Arabic, Hebrew, and Portuguese. Daniel Rubinstein, one of the State Department’s leading “Arabists,” replaced Ambassador Robert Ford as the United States Special Envoy to Syria.
