Herro Mustafa

Herro Kader Mustafa Garg[2][3] (Kurdish: Hêro Mistefa; born 1973) is a Kurdish-American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Egypt since November 2023.

Mustafa was born in Erbil, in Kurdistan Region, Iraq, to a Kurdish family and spent two years of her childhood in a refugee camp.

[3][6] After graduation, she directed a non-governmental organization for Kurdish studies in the U.S., traveled to Bosnia to supervise provincial elections and served as the Senior Editor for the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Mustafa joined the United States Foreign Service in 1999 and served in Athens (as a Political Officer for human rights and trafficking), Beirut (as a consular official), Washington, D.C. (as Iran desk officer at the National Security Council under Elliot Abrams), and special assistant to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns,[7] and Iraq (as Coalition Provisional Authority coordinator for Nineveh under L. Paul Bremer).

[4][8] Mustafa was senior advisor on the Middle East to Vice President Joe Biden from March 2009[9] to 2011.

[13] In June 2019, President Donald Trump nominated Mustafa to be the United States ambassador to Bulgaria.

Herro Mustafa-Garg with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at meeting with Egyptian President El-Sisi in 2024