Christopher WS Ross

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Christopher Ross (left) with British Minister of State Alistair Burt (2011)

Christopher WS Ross (born October 4, 1943 in Quito , Ecuador ) is a former American diplomat .

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Christopher Ross is the son of diplomat Claude G. Ross , who was the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic , Haiti and Tanzania . The younger Ross earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton in 1965 and a master's degree from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1967. In addition to his mother tongue, he also speaks Arabic , French and Greek .

He began his diplomatic career after working as a journalist and Arabic teacher in 1968 with the United States Information Agency (USIA) before moving to the United States Department of State in 1979 . There he was most recently the US ambassador to Algeria (1988–1991) and Syria (1991–1998), as counter-terrorism coordinator (1998) and as special advisor to the United States Mission to the UN (from 2003). He has received several awards for his work.

Ross was appointed UN envoy for Western Sahara in 2009 , where he acted as a mediator in the Western Sahara conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front . In March 2017, he unexpectedly announced his resignation from this mission.

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predecessor Office successor
L. Craig Johnstone US Ambassador to Algiers
August 12, 1988 – August 1991 		Mary Ann Casey
Edward Djerejian US envoy to Damascus
August 1991-22. March 1998 		Ryan Crocker
personal data
SURNAME Ross, Christopher WS
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Quito , Ecuador