Chargé d'Affaires a.i.
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. Michael Gallagher Michael Gallagher has been Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in The Hague since May 2007 and, at the resignation of Ambassador Arnall on March 7, 2008, assumed duties as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim.
Mr. Gallagher entered the United States Foreign Service in 1973. Prior to his current assignment, he was Director of Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands and United Kingdom Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. His recent duties have included Economic Minister at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa; Economic Minister at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York; Political Director at the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo; Economic Minister-Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the Economic Union in Brussels; and U.S. Consul General in Vancouver. Earlier in his career, he served most often as an economist at the American Embassies in Abidjan, Tunis, London, Jakarta and the U.S. Mission to the Economic Community in Brussels. He had various duties at the Department of State in African, Economic, or European affairs.
Before joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Gallagher was an assistant controller for an engineering firm and was active in local politics in Philadelphia, his native city. After university he served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army in Germany.
Mr. Gallagher is a graduate of Canada’s National Defense College, was a graduate economics student at the University of London, a graduate fellow at Princeton University, and earned a BA from La Salle University and an MBA from Temple University.
He is married to the former Martha Janzer and they have four daughters.
