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Mr. Walid Maalouf is the Director of Public Diplomacy for ME & MEPI Affairs at USAID. He is responsible for enhancing communications between the agency and the broader ME community in America and abroad. He served as the Alternate Representative of the USA to the general assembly of the United Nations in 2003. While at the US Mission in New York, he was the first United States representative to deliver a speech at the UN in Arabic. Prior to these two presidential appointments Mr. Maalouf was an international banker in the metropolitan Washington, DC area for fourteen years. He served on a number of civic boards and organized several conventions. He is a member of numerous organizations including the Consular Corps of Washington, DC, and is a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Mr. Maalouf received the Patriarchal Golden Cross of Jerusalem from the Melkite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Alexandria and Jerusalem in 1998. He has been interviewed and written for numerous magazines and newspapers. He also has been recognized for his dedicated commitment to public service and community organizations. Mr. Maalouf is the founder and former national Vice President of the National Alliance of Lebanese Americans and was the national executive director of the American Lebanese League. He served as Heritage Co-Chair, Middle Eastern of the Catholic Task Force of the Republican National Committee and Co-Chairman of the American Dreamers on behalf of the Lebanese American community in support of President George W. Bush. Mr. Maalouf was Born in Beirut, Lebanon and graduated from Sacred Heart College in Belmont, North Carolina. He and his wife, Janet, live in Arlington, Virginia and they have two children, Carly and Ben. Some of Mr. Maalouf's Activities:
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