Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
Prior to his appointment in Pakistan, Olson had served as United States. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates as well the Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs in the United States. Embassy, Kabul with the rank of ambassador. Olson is married to Deborah K. Jones, the United States Ambassador to Libya. Olson have two daughters.
Olson earned an undergraduate degree in law and society, and history from Brown University in 1981.
Olson joined the United States. State Department in 1982, and served tenures in Mexico, Uganda, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Iraq, and three tours in the United Arab Emirates. Olson has also served as the deputy chief of mission at the United States Mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) from 2006-2008.
He served as United States. Consul General in Dubai from 2001 to 2003. From 2008 to 2011, Olson was the United States. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates.
Olson served as Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs at the United States. embassy in Kabul, from June 2011 to June 2012.
In 2012, Cameron Munter resigned as the United States ambassador to Pakistan after relations between Pakistan and the United States were deteriorated following the United States forces raid killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The President of United States Barack Obama nominated Olson for ambassadorship which the United States Senate approved. He presented his credentials to President Asif Ali Zardari on October 31, 2012.
He is a career member of the Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor.