A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Mr. Beecroft's previous assignments include service in Washington in the Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs and Executive Secretariat and overseas at the U.S. embassies in Riyadh and Damascus. He is a recipient of the Department of State's Meritorious, Superior, and Distinguished Honor Awards.
Before joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Beecroft practiced law in the San Francisco office of an international law firm. He holds a B.A. from Brigham Young University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
