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Biography of Mark G. Hambley U.S. Special Negotiator on Climate Change and Alternate Head of the U.S. Delegation, COP-5 Released by the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State, October 1999

Mark G. Hambley has headed the U.S. negotiating team at the numerous climate change conferences which have been held since the start to the Berlin Mandate talks in August 1995 under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This process culminated with the Kyoto Protocol which was concluded at the Third Conference of the Parties in December 1997, where Ambassador Hambley served as Alternate Head of Delegation under Under Secretary of State Stuart Eizenstat, a position he also encumbered at the Fourth Conference at Buenos Aires in November 1998 and one which he will hold during the High Level Segment of the Fifth Conference, where the U.S. Delegation will be led by Under Secretary of State Frank Loy.

In between these conferences, Ambassador Hambley heads the interagency working group on climate change and leads the U.S. delegations to the annual meetings of the subsidiary bodies of the climate change convention. His duties have entailed extensive travel throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America where he has engaged governments and local business and environmental leaders on aspects of U.S. climate change policy. He has also been a frequent participant at numerous international and domestic workshops and panels on this topic.

Since joining the U.S. Department of State in 1971, Ambassador Hambley has had fifteen postings in eleven countries, including appointments as U.S. Consul General in Alexandria, Egypt, and at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He served as the U.S. Ambassador in Qatar during the Gulf War and later as Ambassador to Lebanon. Since February 1995, he has been the U.S. Special Representative to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development. Ambassador Hambley has been a member of the Senior Foreign Service since 1989 and has received several governmental and civic accolades, including the Director General's Reporting Award, Departmental superior and meritorious honor awards, and the U.S. Navy's Superior Public Service Medal. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a life-time member of the National Geographic Society.

A native of the State of Idaho, Ambassador Hambley was educated in Ontario and Illinois and at American University, the American University of Beirut, UCLA, and at Columbia. His languages are French and Arabic. He is married and maintains residences in California and Massachusetts.

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