Background
Ginsberg, Marc Charles was born on October 18, 1950 in New York City.
Diplomat investment company executive
Ginsberg, Marc Charles was born on October 18, 1950 in New York City.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts from American University and was a Master of Business Administration candidate at Georgetown University before earning his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978.
From 2000 to 2012, he was a senior vice president of Associated Public-Safety Communications Officers Worldwide and from 2002 to 2011 he was founding president of Layalina Productions, Incorporated. He was one of three founding directors of Sutton Place Gourmet, and practiced international corporate law in the United States. and the Middle East from 1981 to 1993. He also served as Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Media in the 1992 Clinton Presidential campaign and, in 2000, was First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore"s co-coordinator for national security in his presidential campaign.
Ginsberg was born in 1950 in New York and from 1960 to 1968, was raised in Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, and fluently speaks English, Hebrew, Arabic, and French.
As a college freshman, in 1971, Ginsberg began serving as a legislative assistant to Senator Edward Kennedy when he was Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Refugees until 1977. In 1977, the United States Secretary of State (Cyrus Vance) appointed him to serve as White House Liaison.
Under President Jimmy Carter, from 1979 until 1981, he was Deputy Senior Advisor to the President for Middle East Policy. In 1994, he was appointed Ambassador to Morocco by President Bill Clinton making Ginsberg the first Jewish American to be appointed as an ambassador in an Arab country.
He was the first United States diplomat to Morocco to be awarded the Highest Order of Ouissam — a knighthood — by Hassan II, the king of Morocco at that time.
Between 1998 and 1999, he served as the United States Special Coordinator for Mediterranean Trade, Investment and Security Affairs. Ginsberg has also worked as a reviewer of United States foreign and economic policy for groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Brookings Institution. From 2000 to 2012 he served as senior vice president & managing director of Associated Public-Safety Communications Officers Worldwide — a global corporate public affairs and communication consultancy — he coordinated strategic client relationships and business planning throughout the Middle East.
Layalina is a non-profit producer of commercial Arabic language television, the first United States organization to produce such content for broadcasting in the Arabic world.
Layalina has its headquarters in Washington, District of Columbia and in Amman, Jordan. In 2013 he became Chief Executive Officer of the One Voice Movement Foundation and Chief Executive Officer of Peaceworks Limited Liability Company (wwwonevoicemovementorg) and resigned in November, 2014.
He remains a Senior Adviser. With offices in Israel, Palestine, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the One Voice Movement fosters grassroots advocacy among the next generation of Israelis and Palestinians to promote a two state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
He regularly contributes articles to prominent outlets such as The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the International New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, and the Huffington Post.
He serves on the Middle East Advisory Board of the Rand Corporation and on the boards of other Middle East organizations. He also served a two-year term on the board of directors of the American Association of Retired Persons Foundation (2009–2011).
Married Janet Louise Ginsberg. Two children.