Chargé d'Affaires a.i.
Chargé d'Affaires a.i. Michael Gallagher
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. For the past fifteen years, Mr. Gallagher has been a senior manager or has directed economic affairs. His assignments have included Economic Minister at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Economic Minister at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York City, New York; Political Director at the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Economic Minister-Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the Economic Union in Brussels; and U.S. Consul General in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Earlier in his career, he served most often as an economist at the American Embassies in Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Tunis, Tunisia; London, England; Jakarta, Indonesia and the U.S. Mission to the Economic Community in Brussels, Belgium, as well as assignments in Washington, D.C. for the Bureau of African 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 research student in economics 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.