Robert S. Beecroft
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| United States Ambassador to Egypt | |
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Assumed office February 14, 2015 |
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| President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Thomas Goldberger |
| Preceded by | Anne Patterson |
| United States Ambassador to Iraq | |
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In office October 11, 2012 – September 27, 2014 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | James Jeffrey |
| Succeeded by | Stuart Jones |
| United States Ambassador to Jordan | |
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In office August 14, 2008 – June 4, 2011 |
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| President |
George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David Hale |
| Succeeded by | Stuart Jones |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1957 (age 59–60) |
| Alma mater |
Brigham Young University UC Berkeley School of Law |
Robert Stephen "Steve" Beecroft (born 1957) is an American diplomat. He is currently United States Ambassador to Egypt. He previously served as United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassador to Jordan.
He holds a B.A. from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he was a Mormon missionary in Venezuela. 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, D.C. 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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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.
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