President Obama announced his intent to nominate David D. Pearce as Ambassador to Greece, Department of State.
Ambassador David D. Pearce, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career-Minister, is Senior Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the Department of State. Prior to his current role, he was Assistant Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2011 to 2012.
From 2008 to 2011, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Algeria. From 2005 to 2008, he was the Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, during which time he served on two excursion tours to Iraq in 2007 and 2008 to serve as a Senior Advisor to Ambassador Ryan Crocker. From 2003 to 2005, Ambassador Pearce was Chief of Mission and Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem.
Additional overseas posts include: Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria and Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 1982, Ambassador Pearce worked for nearly a decade as a reporter and foreign correspondent.
He was a writer and editor for The National Geographic Society, The Washington Post, United Press International, The Rome Daily American, and the Associated Press in Ohio. He received an A.B. from Bowdoin College and an M.A. from The Ohio State University.
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