Paul E. Simons is a career diplomat who served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Chile from 2007 to 2010.

[2] In 2011, Ambassador Simons was named a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.

From 2011 to 2015, he served as Executive Secretary of the Interamerican Drug Abuse Control Commission at the Organization of American States.

[4] In April 2015, Simons was selected as the new deputy executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

[5] In August 2020, Ambassador Simons returned to Yale University as a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.