OUR STAFF

Executive Director 

David L. Goldwyn has nearly 15 years of international business, legal, diplomatic, and foreign affairs experience operating at and with the highest levels of the White House, State Department, National Security Council, National Economic Council, Commerce, Defense, Export Credit, and Trade and Development agencies.  He has international law experience in mergers, joint ventures, acquisitions, financings, and dispute resolution.   He has served the US government in the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs at the State Department under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton, acting as Chief of Staff from 1993-1997. He has also served as Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs, Counselor to the Secretary of Energy, and national security deputy to Ambassador Bill Richardson, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations under President Bill Clinton. In both Energy and State, he acquired senior commercial diplomatic experience.    

Association Chairman

David L. Mack is Vice President of the Middle East Institute. He served the US government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (1990-1993) and served in Tripoli early in his diplomatic career. As a Deputy assistant secretary he directed the conduct of relations between the United States and 12 other governments, including Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. He provided political support for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm and promoted U.S. business interests in the Arab world. Ambassador Mack served as foreign policy advisor to Commerce Secretary Brown on his first trip to Saudi Arabia. As U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (1986-1989), he was in charge of all U.S. government activities and over 150 civilian and military personnel. He was also responsible for diplomatic contacts with the leaders of the U.A.E., a country of strategic and commercial importance to the United States. His subjects ranged from hostilities with Iran to billions of dollars in economic contracts to cultural exchange. Ambassador Mack specializes in the Middle East, North Africa, Islam, and U.S. foreign policy. His diplomatic assignments have included Libya, Iraq, Jerusalem, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates.

Operational Staff

Jamie O’Mealia graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a Concentration in Culture and Politics. Before joining the US-Libya Business Association, Jamie interned in the geopolitical analysis division of Stratfor, a private intelligence company. Jamie is proficient in French and Spanish and is currently improving his conversational Arabic at the Middle East Institute.

Sheila M. Moynihan has studied at the London School of Economics and recently graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University with a Political Science Major, Economics Minor and Russian Area Studies Concentration.  Prior to joining the GIS team, Sheila worked at the United States Energy Association and interned at the United Nations Association of Greater Philadelphia. She is proficient in Russian.