Philip Frayne is a retired American diplomat who spent 33 years in the U.S. Foreign Service conducting public and traditional diplomacy in 9 different countries.

He most recently served as the U.S. Consul General in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and served as the head of the Office of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the State Department, as well as the head of the Public Diplomacy sections at the U.S. embassies in Paris, Amman, Cairo, Baghdad, Casablanca, and Colombo.

Mr Frayne also worked as the Director of all Public Diplomacy and strategic communications programs for the Middle East from the State Department in Washington, D.C.

He holds a BA from Columbia University and a Masters in International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS.

In addition to English, Mr Frayne speaks French, Arabic, and Spanish.