The University of Texas at Austin

Gregory W. Engle has been named as the Diplomat-in-Residence at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Engle's appointment at the LBJ School follows a thirteen month assignment as Management Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. He is a career member of the Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. Prior to arrival in Iraq, he was the U.S. Ambassador to the Togolese Republic.

The Diplomat-in-Residence program is managed by the U.S. Department of State to disseminate information about career opportunities in the foreign service, to help candidates through the Foreign Service exam and application process, and to support programs sponsored by foreign affairs groups and institutions.

Ambassador Engle joined the Foreign Service (U.S. Department of State) in 1981, following a tour as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea. He has served in management positions in Pakistan, Germany, Washington, Ethiopia, and Cyprus. He was the recipient of the State Department's Leamon R. Hunt Award for Administrative Achievement in 1990.

Following his assignment in Cyprus, Ambassador Engle served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Lilongwe, Malawi, from 1992 to 1995. Upon leaving Malawi, he was a member of the Foreign Service Institute's 38th Senior Seminar. From 1996 to 1999, he was U.S. Consul General in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Returning to Washington, Ambassador Engle served as Director of the International Cooperative Administrative Support Services (ICASS) system from 1999 to 2001, Special Coordinator for the African Crisis Response Initiative from 2001 to 2002, and Director of the Office of Regional and Security Affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs from 2002 to 2003.

Ambassador Engle received a B.A. in Political Science and an MPA from the University of Colorado. He is married and has two children.

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