Education
Brigham Young University. University of California, Berkeley.
Brigham Young University. University of California, Berkeley.
He has served as United States Ambassador to Egypt since June 2014. Earlier, he previously served as United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassador to Jordan. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley.
He practiced law in the San Francisco office of an international law firm.
He joined the United States Foreign Service in 1994. He carried out an assignment in Washington, District of Columbia as Executive Assistant to two Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and Special Assistant to a Deputy Secretary of State.
He has also held assignments in the Department of State"s Executive Secretariat and its Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. Overseas he has served at the United States. embassies in Amman, Riyadh, and Damascus.
He served as Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from August 2008 until June 2011.
He joined the United States. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, as Deputy Chief of Mission on July 14, 2011. He became Charge d"Affaires upon the departure of Ambassador James Jeffrey on June 1, 2012. On September 11, 2012, the White House Press Office announced that President Barack Obama had nominated Mr.
Beecroft to the United States. Senate to succeed Ambassador Jeffrey as the United States Ambassador to Iraq in the wake of the withdrawal of the nomination of Brett H. McGurk.
He was confirmed by the Senate on September 22, and sworn in on October 9, 2012. The Nomination of Beecroft and his selection came in a moment fraught with tension in relations between the United States and Egypt after the 2013 Egyptian coup d"état.
At the time, United States. officials have repeatedly criticized the army-backed interim Egyptian government in dealing violently with opponents, especially those associated with the Muslim Brotherhood - banned after the military coup - and for allowing the courts to issue death sentences on hundreds of opponents. lieutenant was expected that the Obama administration shall nominate Robert Ford, who was a senior United States. diplomats in the Syrian crisis to the post of ambassador in Cairo, but United States. officials said that the Egyptian government has indicated that they see Ford close to Islamic parties in the Middle East.
In late April 2014 the United States decided to lift the partial ban imposed on the military aid to Egypt - after the military coup - and the Pentagon delivered ten Apache helicopters to Egypt, and that followed the Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy visit to Washington.
On the same day Beecroft was nominated (May 9, 2014), the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called on the United States to support the presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt, the Field Marshal leader of the coup d"état, during the elections and not to criticize him openly, and to postpone any differences with him until after he took office. The United States. Senate confirmed Beecroft to the post on June 26, 2014.
Barak said in the 2014 speech to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that "The United States must sometimes waive defending the values of freedom and democracy in order to protect its interests." He added that he felt happy after the intervention of the army and the arrest of deposed President Mohamed Morsi and setting the ousted President Hosni Mubarak free from prison.