Marciel, Scot Alan, 1958-

<p>Ambassador Scot Marciel was confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Union of Burma on February 9, 2016 by the U.S. Senate. Ambassador Marciel arrived in Burma on March 25, 2016.</p>

<p>Ambassador Marciel previously served as the Department of State’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from August 2013-February 2016. Prior to his return to Washington, he served as Ambassador to the Republic of Indonesia. He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, where he was responsible for relations with Southeast Asia, and as Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs.</p>

<p>Ambassador Marciel, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, joined the Department in 1985. His assignments include Director of the Office of Maritime Southeast Asia, Director of the Office of Mainland Southeast Asia, and Director of the Office of Southeastern Europe.</p>

<p>Ambassador Marciel also has served in Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Brazil and Turkey, as well as in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs’ Office of Monetary Affairs.</p>

<p>Ambassador Marciel grew up in Fremont, California. He is a graduate of the University of California at Davis and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.</p>

<p>Ambassador Marciel and his wife, Mae, have two daughters.</p>

<p>Scot Alan Marciel (born 1958) is an American diplomat and served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs until February 2016. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be the United States Ambassador to Burma on January 28, 2016.</p>

<p>He was the United States Ambassador to Indonesia from August 2010 until July 2013. Marciel has worked for the United States Department of State since 1985. He has served in various capacities abroad and in particular was the United States Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations prior to his nomination in Indonesia.</p>

<p>Marciel grew up in Fremont, California. He is a graduate of the University of California, Davis and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.</p>

<p>Ambassador Marciel previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asia and Pacific Bureau, responsible for relations with Southeast Asia, and as Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs.</p>

<p>Marciel, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, joined the State Department in 1985. His assignments included Director of the Department's Office of Maritime Southeast Asia, Director of the Office of Mainland Southeast Asia, and Director of the Office of Southeastern Europe. He has served in Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Brazil and Turkey, as well as in the Economic Bureau's Office of Monetary Affairs.</p>

<p>Scot Marciel, a career member of the Foreign Service, was nominated in October 2015, to be the next ambassador to Burma. The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee approved his nomination the following January 28. If Marciel is approved by the full Senate, it will be his second ambassadorial post.</p>

<p>After growing up in Fremont, California, where he graduated from Mission San Jose High School in 1976, Marciel attended the University of California at Davis (Bachelor of Arts) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (Master of Arts, 1983).</p>

<p>After working as editor of staff publications for the National Center for Export-Import Studies at Georgetown University, he joined the State Department in 1985.</p>

<p>In August 1993, Marciel became the first U.S. diplomat to be posted to Hanoi since the end of the Vietnam War. There, he worked on finding remains of American servicemen.</p>

<p>Marciel subsequently served in the Philippines, working in the consular office, There he met Mae, the woman who would become his wife. In the late 1990s he was trade policy officer at the U.S. consulate in Hong Kong. He also served in Brazil, and as economic counselor in Turkey, as well as in the Economic Bureau’s Office of Monetary Affairs.</p>

<p>More recently, he has served as director of the State Department’s Office of Maritime Southeast Asia, director of the Office of Mainland Southeast Asia and director of the Office of Southeastern Europe.</p>

<p>Prior to becoming ambassador to Indonesia, Marciel was the deputy assistant secretary in the East Asia and Pacific Bureau, responsible for relations with Southeast Asia, and the ambassador for ASEAN affairs.</p>

<p>He took over as U.S. ambassador to Indonesia on August 16, 2010. In March 2011, Marciel had to deal with the fallout from the WikiLeaks release of State Department cables that accused Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of corruption and abuse of power, including using the national intelligence service to spy on his political rivals. He also helped Boeing sell $23 billion worth of planes to an Indonesian airline.</p>

<p>He returned to Washington in 2013 to serve as principal deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, a position he held while awaiting confirmation to the Burma post.</p>

<p>Marciel speaks Portuguese and Vietnamese. He and his wife have two daughters.</p>