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Consul General Meghan Gregonis
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August 26, 2021

Consul General Meghan Gregonis

Meghan Gregonis is the United States Consul General in Dubai starting August, 2021.  A career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service, Meghan was the U.S. Consul General in Munich, Germany from 2018-2021.  She managed support for the two largest in-person U.S. delegations and the first virtual delegation to the Munich Security Conference during her time there.  She also focused on innovation themes in Germany and launched the first Germany-wide Transatlantic Innovation Week to further develop innovation and trade and investment relationships.

Meghan’s previous overseas assignments include Islamabad, Riyadh, Rome, Baghdad, and Jerusalem.  Her Washington assignments include directing public engagement efforts in Europe; managing relations with Turkey from the State Department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs; and coordinating U.S. engagement with Jordan from the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.  Meghan was also responsible for relations with Turkey during an assignment to the White House, where she served as a member of the National Security Council.

Meghan is a distinguished graduate of the National War College and an alumna of New York University.  She has completed graduate studies at Temple University and earned professional certifications from the University of Southern California and MIT’s Seminar XXI for national security professionals.  Meghan speaks Italian and German, and basic French and Arabic.  She worked for a venture capital firm in her hometown of Philadelphia before joining the Foreign Service in 2001.  Meghan is accompanied in Dubai by her husband, Dr. Alessio Volante.