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Event Speaker: Michael Corbin
Affiliation: U.S. Department of State
Michael Corbin, a career Senior Foreign Service Officer is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs for Iraq issues. He assumed this position on July 27, 2009. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Corbin served as Minister-Counselor for Political-Military Affairs at Embassy Baghdad, from September 2008. He was previously assigned as Charge d’Affaires in Damascus, Syria from 2006 to 2008. He served as the Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo from August 2003 to June 2006 after serving as the Deputy Director of the State Department’s Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Corbin was the Director of the Counter-Narcotics Section at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela from 1997 to 2001. He served at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo from 1994 to 1997 as the Political-Military Affairs Officer and at the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait from 1987 to 1989. His first tour after joining the State Department was at the U.S. Embassy in Tunisia from 1985 to 1987.
Mr. Corbin also served in the State Department in Washington as a staff assistant in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and in the office of United Nations Political Affairs in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs.
After graduating with a B.A. from Swarthmore College, Mr. Corbin served from 1982 to 1984 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Mauritania, where he worked as an agricultural extension officer and served as a trainer for new Peace Corps volunteers. Mr. Corbin has received several Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards from the State Department. He speaks French, Spanish and Arabic.
Mr. Corbin is married to another Foreign Service Officer, Mary Ellen Hickey. He has two children: a son and a daughter. In addition to traveling with his family, Mr. Corbin is an enthusiastic cyclist and has enjoyed riding all over the world. Mr. Corbin was born in New York City, but has adopted his wife’s home near Santa Barbara, California as his home.