The Honorable Herbert E. Horowitz
USCPF Boardmember

Ambassador Herbert E. Horowitz, a retired career member of the Senior Foreign Service, served as Ambassador to the Republic of Gambia from 1986-1989.

Ambassador Horowitz entered the Foreign Service in 1956 and served as an economic officer at our Embassy in Taipei, Taiwan, from 1957 to 1962. He then returned to the Department as an economic officer in East Asian/China affairs until 1964 when he became a student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy for a year. From 1965 to 1969, he served as chief, China Economic Unit, at the American consulate general in Hong Kong. In 1969 he returned to the Department to serve as Deputy Chief of the Negotiations Division of the Office of Aviation. From 1971 to 1972, he attended the National War College. In 1972 Ambassador Horowitz became Deputy Director, Taiwan relations, in the Bureau of East Asian Affairs, and then in 1973 went to Beijing, China, as Chief of the Commercial/Economic Section, U.S. Liaison Office. In 1975 he returned to Washington as Director of the Office of Research for East Asia in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1975 - 1978); Director, Office of Regional Affairs, East Asian Bureau (1978 - 1979); and Director, Office of East/West Economic Policy, Treasury Department (1979 - 1980). Ambassador Horowitz was named consul general at the American consulate in Sydney, Australia, in 1981, and in 1984 to 1986 served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China.

Ambassador Horowitz was born July 10, 1930, in Brooklyn, NY. He received his B.A. in 1952 from Brooklyn College; M.A. in 1964 from Columbia University; and M.A. in 1965 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He served in the United States Army from 1953 to 1955. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Ambassador Horowitz is married and has two children.

 

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