Doha, 15 June 2020 (Qatar Tribune)

The US State Department has named Greta C. Holtz as Chargé d’Affaires of the US Embassy in Doha.
In this capacity, Ambassador Holtz will represent the United States government and lead the embassy in its diplomatic engagement with Qatar.

Ambassador Holtz is a senior career US diplomat with extensive experience in the region. She assumed her duties as Chargé d’Affaires on Sunday. Ambassador Holtz previously served as senior advisor in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs in May 2019.

Prior to this, she has served in senior positions, including the US Ambassador to Oman from September 2012 to December 2015 and Minister-Counsellor for Provincial Affairs at the US Embassy in Baghdad from 2009 to 2010.

She also served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Strategic  ommunication in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs from 2010 to 2012. Additional overseas assignments include postings in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, Syria and Turkey.

At the State Department, Ambassador Holtz was the director of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, the State Department’s coordinator for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and a senior watch officer in the State Department’s Executive Secretariat’s Operations Center.

Ambassador Holtz received a B.S. in political science from Vanderbilt University, a M.A. in International Relations from the University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce and a M.S. in National Security Studies from the National War College.

Ambassador Holtz joined the Foreign Service in 1985 and studied Arabic at the Foreign Service Institute’s Field School in Tunisia and Turkish at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia.

Ambassador Holtz is the recipient of numerous State Department awards, as well as awards from the Department of Defense.