Edward M. Gabriel
{{Short description|American diplomat (born 1950)}}
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| name = Edward M. Gabriel
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| image = Edward Gabriel at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Arab American Heritage Month observance at USDA in Washington, D.C. on 17 April 2024 (cropped).jpg
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| ambassador_from = United States
| country = Morocco
| term_start = 1997
| term_end = March 2001
| predecessor = Marc Charles Ginsberg
| successor = Margaret D. Tutwiler
| president = William Clinton
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|03|1}}
| birth_place = Olean, New York, United States
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Edward M. Gabriel (born March 1, 1950) is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Morocco{{cite book |title=Morocco: the Islamist awakening and other challenges |url=https://archive.org/details/moroccoislamista00howe |url-access=limited |last=Howe |first=Marvine |page=[https://archive.org/details/moroccoislamista00howe/page/n320 306] |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-516963-8 }} from 1997 to 2001. He is the currently a member of the board of directors for the United States Institute of Peace.
Early life and education
Gabriel grew up in Olean, New York. Gabriel earned a B.S. in business from Gannon University and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Gannon University in 1972.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-24 |title=Edward M. Gabriel |url=https://www.keystone.org/our-people/edward-m-gabriel/ |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=Keystone Policy Center |language=en-US}}
Career
Gabriel is president and CEO of The Gabriel Company, LLC, as well as the president and CEO of the American Task Force on Lebanon.{{cite web |title=Edward M. Gabriel |url=https://www.mei.edu/experts/edward-m-gabriel |website=Middle East Institute |accessdate=11 November 2019}} He also served as CEO of the Madison Public Affairs Group. Gabriel previously held roles in areas like the United States Department of Energy, Council of Energy Resource Tribes, and Keystone Policy Center’s Energy Project.{{Cite web |title=The Hon. Edward M. Gabriel - ATFL |url=https://www.atfl.org/member/edward-gabriel/ |access-date=2025-01-31 |language=en-US}}
He serves on the boards of the American Schools of Tangier and Marrakech, the Keystone Policy Center, AMIDEAST, and Lebanese American University.{{Cite web |title=Edward M. Gabriel |url=https://www.usip.org/people/edward-m-gabriel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025014159/https://www.usip.org/people/edward-m-gabriel |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2022 |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=United States Institute of Peace |language=en}}
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Gabriel was sworn in as the 16 US ambassador to Morocco on November 1997 and arrived there in January 1998. He served until March 2001.{{Cite web |title=Edward M. Gabriel - People - Department History - Office of the Historian |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/gabriel-edward-m |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250108182659/https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/gabriel-edward-m |archive-date=2025-01-08 |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=history.state.gov |language=en}}
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On December 15, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Gabriel to be a member of the board of directors of the United States Institute of Peace.{{cite web |title=President Biden Announces Key Nominees and an Appointee to Board and Commission Roles |url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/15/president-biden-announces-key-nominees-and-an-appointee-to-board-and-commission-roles/ |website=The White House |date=15 December 2021 |access-date=12 April 2022}} He was confirmed to a four year term by the U.S. Senate via voice vote on August 4, 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-04 |title=PN1755 - Nomination of Edward Gabriel for United States Institute of Peace, 117th Congress (2021-2022) |url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/117th-congress/1755 |access-date=2025-01-31 |website=www.congress.gov}}
Awards and recognitions
Gabriel has won many awards, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and ACCESS Arab American of the Year. He has also won Lebanon’s National Order of the Cedar and Morocco’s Order of the Ouissam Alaouite.
Personal life
Gabriel and his wife, Kathleen Linehan, live in Washington, D.C. and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
References
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External links
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Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Morocco
Category:People from Olean, New York
Category:American chief executives
Category:Gannon University alumni
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