Stephanie L. Hallett

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Stephanie L. Hallett currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and served as Chargé d’Affaires a.i. from July to November 2023.  Prior to her assignment in Israel, Stephanie was the Acting Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa and Director of Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council.  She also served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman.  Previous assignments include serving as the Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff in Washington, DC; as the Political and Economic Section Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Manama, Bahrain; and as the Deputy Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.  Stephanie also worked in the Office of Iranian Affairs and the State Department Operations Center in Washington, DC, and at the U.S. Consulates General in Monterrey, Mexico and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.  She is a graduate of the George Washington University and the University of Cambridge.