Mr. Walid Maalouf is the Director of Public Diplomacy for Middle Eastern & MEPI Affairs at USAID. He is responsible for enhancing communications between the agency and the broader Middle Eastern community in America and abroad. He served as the Alternate Representative of the United States of America 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 United Nations 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 many distinguished awards.   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.   He is very active in American-Lebanese affairs.
He is the author of "How Many Times... I told you - Reflections, Memories and Hope for Lebanon" . The book is featured below. To learn more about Mr. Maalouf please visit his website at www.walidmaalouf.com

"Mr. Maalouf's book is a testimony of how Lebanese Americans who are proud of being American citizens and grateful for the opportunities that the United States offers, still have Lebanon on their minds and in their hearts every moment of their lives. This book is about positive political activism -- an activism that is inclusive, one that rejects an "either/or" approach to national loyalty and embraces a "both/and" outlook. Mr. Maalouf's experience is one of an immigrant who is deeply loyal to America and who champions the values and opportunities that he has found in his new land and who wishes to see these values protected and nurtured in the land of his origin. Mr. Maalouf illustrates how the U.S. empowered him to fight for a noble cause: the sovereignty of Lebanon and the affirmation of its democratic heritage. This book is also about the unique experience of a young Lebanese man, from a small but beautiful mountain village in Lebanon, who rises to become a political player in the political hallways of Washington, DC.
"May A. Rihani, Senior Vice-President of the Academy for Educational

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