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Alberto Fernandez (Alberto Miguel Fernandez) was born on 1958 in Havana, Cuba, is a Cuban-American diplomat (born 1958). Discover Alberto Fernandez's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Alberto Miguel Fernandez
Occupation Diplomat (formerly)
Age 66 years old
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Born 1958
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Birthplace Havana, Cuba
Nationality United States

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1776

He has written for The Lamp (magazine), The American Conservative, the Foreign Service Journal, MEMRI, Journal of International Security Affairs, The Cipher Brief, AFPC Almanac of Islamism, The Washington Post, Providence, Georgetown Cornerstone, Brookings Markaz, Middle East Quarterly, The European Conservative, The American Mind, Defense Dossier, IM1776 ReVista the Harvard Review of Latin America, University Bookman and Journal of the Assyrian Academic Society. He has also lectured at numerous U.S. universities and presented papers at conferences of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), and Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID).

Born in Cuba and raised in Miami, Florida, he is a graduate of the University of Arizona and Defense Language Institute.

Fluent in Arabic (4/3+), Spanish (5/5) and English, is married and has two sons.

1958

Alberto Miguel Fernandez (born 1958) is a Cuban-American former diplomat.

He was the head of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), which includes Alhurra.

2005

In Sudan, he worked to maintain the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Accords between the NCP government and the rebels of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) and to bring humanitarian relief to war-torn Darfur.

Fernandez was the director of the office of press and public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the United States Department of State from August 2005 to May 2007.

As one of the few to speak fluent Arabic at the U.S. State Department, he was the mouthpiece for U.S. policy in the Middle East.

A Newsweek profile started that he gave an average of about 200 interviews a year.

Fernandez has also served in senior US embassy positions, as Counselor for Public Affairs, in Kabul, Amman, Guatemala City, and Damascus.

Earlier in his career, he served at the US Embassy in Kuwait (Public Affairs Officer), Managua (Press Attache and Spokesman), Santo Domingo (Director of the Dominican American Cultural Institute, ICDA), and Abu Dhabi.

2006

In an Arabic-language interview on Al-Jazeera on October 21, 2006, Fernandez made statements translated as, "I think there is great room for strong criticism, because without doubt, there was arrogance and stupidity by the United States in Iraq."

The State Department reacted by denying that he had made the comments, claiming that they had been "mistranslated."

After independent translators confirmed the translation as being correct, a news release issued by the State Department quoted an apology from Fernandez: "Upon reading the transcript of my appearance on Al-Jazeera, I realized that I seriously misspoke by using the phrase 'there has been arrogance and stupidity' by the U.S. in Iraq. This represents neither my views nor those of the State Department. I apologize."

Similarly, US Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said in English days before Fernandez's comments: "It's important to recognize that mistakes have been made over the last few years. There have been times when US officials have behaved arrogantly and were not receptive to advice from local leaders."

2007

Before that he was Chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan from 2007 to 2009.

2008

Fernandez is a recipient of a Presidential Meritorious Service Award for 2008, the State Department's 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy, a Superior Honor Award in 2003 for his work in Afghanistan, and the 1996 Linguist of the Year Award, among many others.

2010

He was US Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, Africa's third largest oil producer and only Spanish speaking country, from January 2010.

2011

CSCC was set up in September 2011 by White House Executive Order 13584 to combat the propaganda of Al-Qaida, its allies and adherents.

2012

He was the Coordinator for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications (CSCC) at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. from March 2012 to February 2015.

2015

Fernandez is currently vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, a position he held 2015-2017.

He is a member of the Madrid Forum, an international group of right-wing and far-right individuals organized by Vox.

He is a Non-Resident Fellow in Middle East Politics and Media at the TRENDS Research and Advisory center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

He is also on the Board of Advisors of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) IDC (In Defense of Christians) and the Philos Project.

He was a member of the Council of Executives of the Center for Cyber and Homeland Security at Auburn University.