Mr. Reynolds served as the deputy assistant secretary for Senate affairs from September 2004 to March 2005.

Prior to coming to the State Department, Mr. Reynolds spent seventeen years in numerous senior positions in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.

After leaving the Department of State, Reynolds assumed leadership of the newly established Washington, DC Representative Office of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

Mr. Reynolds is a native of Dover, Massachusetts and grew up in Kanpur, India and Beirut, Lebanon.

He graduated from Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts and received his BSFS degree and the Dean's Citation from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.