Draft:Joshua M. Harris

Joshua M. Harris is an American diplomat who is the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Algeria.

Education
Harris is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the London School of Economics.

Career
From 2021 to 2022, Harris served as director for North African Affairs at the National Security Council, coordinating the development and implementation of U.S. policies in the Maghreb region. From 2019 to 2021, Harris also served as deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affaires, ad interim, at the U.S. embassy in Tripoli, Libya and at the Libya External Office in Tunis, Tunisia. Earlier assignments included acting deputy assistant secretary of state and director of the Office of Maghreb Affairs in the Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs; policy director to the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and director for Iraq at the National Security Council. Other overseas assignments included Ljubljana, Slovenia; Baghdad, Iraq; and Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2022, he has served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for North African Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, overseeing U.S. diplomacy with Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia.

On February 29, 2024, President Joe Biden nominated Harris to serve as the United States ambassador to Algeria. His nomination is pending before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. On June 13, 2024, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Personal life
He speaks Arabic, Croatian, French, Italian, Polish, and Slovenian.