USCPF EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER
The Honorable Herbert E. Horowitz

Ambassador Herbert E. Horowitz, a retired career member of the Senior Foreign Service, served as Ambassador to the Republic of Gambia from 1986-1989.

Ambassador Horowitz entered the Foreign Service in 1956, and served as an economic officer at the U.S. Embassy in Taipei, Taiwan, from 1957 to 1962. He then returned to the U.S. Department of State as an economic officer in East Asian/China affairs until 1964, when he became a student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy for a year. From 1965 to 1969, Amb. Horowitz served as Chief of the China Economic Unit at the American consulate gereral in Hong Kong. In 1969, he returned to the Department to serve as Deputy Chief of the Negotiations Division of the Office of Aviation. From 1971 to 1972, he attended the National War College. In 1972, Ambassdaor Horowitz became Deputy Director, Taiwan relations, in the Bureau of East Asian Affairs, and then in 1973, he went to Beijing, China to serve as Chief of the Commercial/Economic SEction, U.S. Liaison Office. In 1974 Amb. Horowitz returned to Washington as Director of the Office of Research for East Asia in teh Burea of Intelligence and Research (1975-1978); Director, Office of Regional Affairs, East Asian Bureau (1978-79); and Director, Office of East/West Economic Policy, Treasury Department (1979-1980). Ambassador Horowitz was named consul general at the American consulate in Sydney, Australia, in 1981. He served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, from 1984 to 1986.

Ambassador Horowitz was born July 10, 1930, in Brooklyn, NY. He received his B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1952; M.A. from Columbia University in 1964; and M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1965. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. Ambassador Horowitz is married and has two children.