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Michael Ratney
United States Special Envoy for Syria
Assumed office
July 27, 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDaniel Rubinstein (Ambassador)
United States Consul General in Jerusalem
In office
July 27, 2012 – July 2015
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byDaniel Rubinstein (Ambassador)
Succeeded byDonald Blome
Personal details
Born1961 (age 62–63)
SpouseKaren Hideko Sasahara (Diplomat)
Alma materBoston University, George Washington University

Michael Ratney (born 1961) is the United States Special Envoy for Syria. He was appointed on July 27, 2015, and succeeded Ambassador Daniel Rubinstein.

From 2012 to 2015, Ratney served as the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem. Until 2012, Ratney was Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Media and, prior to that, Spokesman for the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.

Since joining the Foreign Service in 1990, Ratney served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Doha, Qatar, as well as tours in Mexico City, Baghdad, Beirut, Casablanca, Bridgetown, and Washington, DC. Ratney is from Massachusetts. He earned a BS from Boston University, and an MA from the George Washington University.[1]

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