Irving, Earl Michael, 1953-

Earl M. Irving is a retired member of the Senior Foreign Service who served as the American Ambassador to Swaziland from August 3, 2009 until July 26, 2012. As of 2019, Irving serves as the Senior Adviser to the Franklin Fellows Program at the Department of State.

Irving earned a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Irving joined the State Department in January 1983. He began his career with an assignment in São Paulo, Brazil, which was followed by postings in South Africa and the Soviet Union. While he was in Moscow in 1987, Irving incurred the wrath of the Soviet government by attending a protest in support of Soviet Jews wishing to emigrate to Israel, and by visiting the predominately Muslim Soviet republic of Kirghizia, where he was accused of speaking to young people about their dissatisfaction with the national government.

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