Marwan al-Muasher

Marwan Jameel Essa al-Muasher
Deputy Prime Minister
In office 3 July 2005 – 24 November 2005
Personal details
Born	1956 (age 60–61) Amman

Marwan al-Muasher (Arabic: مروان المعشر‎‎) (born 1956) is a Jordanian diplomat and politician who was Jordan's foreign minister from 2002 to 2004 and its deputy prime minister during 2004 and 2005. He currently serves as vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he oversees research on the Middle East. He was Jordan’s first ambassador to Israel and former ambassador to the United States.

Muasher attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering in 1977, a master of science degree in computer engineering in 1978, and a Ph.D., also in computer engineering, in 1981.

Muasher began his career working as a journalist for the Jordan Times, the only Jordanian newspaper in the English language. He then entered government service, working in communications in the Ministry of Planning, at the prime minister’s office as press adviser, and as director of the Jordan Information Bureau in Washington, D.C.

In 1995, following the 1994 Israel–Jordan peace treaty, Muasher became Jordan’s first ambassador to Israel. Then, in 1996, he became minister of information and the government spokesperson. From 1997 to 2002, he served in Washington, D.C., again as ambassador to the United States, and helped negotiate the Jordan–U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the first free-trade agreement the United States signed with an Arab country.

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