SULAIMANI (ESTA) — The Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) on Sunday welcomed the new Consul General of the United States in Erbil.
“Welcomed Mr. Mark Stroh, new Consul General of @USCGERBIL. We had fruitful discussions on the current overall situation and #KRI–#US strong bilateral ties and partnership. I assured CG Stroh of the support from DFR for a productive tenure in #Erbil and wished him every success,” said the Head of the KRG Department of Foreign Relations, Safeen Dizyaee, on X platform.
Mark Stroh, a career foreign service officer. Prior to that, he was the Team Leader of the Syria Transition Assistance Response Team (START) Forward in northeastern Syria from 2017-2018.
In Syria, he led an interagency team of civilians embedded with U.S. Special Operations Forces managing the provision of humanitarian assistance and the restoration of essential services in areas of Syria liberated from ISIS, according to the US State Department.
“His overseas postings include Kuwait City, Kuwait; Basra and Al-Hillah, Iraq; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Kabul, Afghanistan; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.”
In Washington, he has served on the Executive Secretariat Secretariat Staff, as a Director for Strategic Communications, and Assistant Press Secretary on the National Security Council staff and later as Deputy Spokesman of the National Security Council, and as acting director of the Press Office in the Bureau of Public Affairs.
Before joining the Foreign Service, Stroh was a journalist working for several daily and weekly publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was a daily beat reporter from 2000 to 2002.
He has a BA in History and Political Science from Randolph-Macon College, where he graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1994. Stroh has an MS in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
