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For other people with the same or similar names, see Matt Palmer (disambiguation).
Matthew A. Palmer is an American diplomat and author who has served as the Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in London, United Kingdom, since 2022.[1]. He is the son of best-selling medical thriller author Michael Palmer[2] and has written four of his own novels[3]. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State with responsibility for the Western Balkans and the Aegean from 2018 to 2021[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Palmer graduated from Wesleyan University in 1988 with a B.A. in East Asian studies.[4]. He is a graduate of the National War College and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations[1].
Career
[edit]Diplomat
[edit]Palmer is a career member of the Foreign Service, which he joined in 1992[5]. Palmer planned to focus his diplomatic career on Asia, and was initially assigned to a first job in Beijing. But the job was eliminated before he could start and he was instead sent to Belgrade, Serbia, where he served for two years[4]. He then served as a political officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations[1]. From 1999 to 2002, he was associate director of Secretary of State’s Policy Planning staff where he helped develop the Kimberly Process for certifying diamonds that did not come from conflict zones[2].
He later served in Nicosia and on the staff of the National Security Council[1].
He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary with responsibility for the Western Balkans and the Aegean from 2018 to 2021[6].
In August, 2019, he was appointed the Secretary of State’s Special Representative for the Western Balkans[7], at a time when the US and four major European nations were pushing for Kosovo and Serbia to ease tensions and normalize relations[8]. Palmer traveled through the region in support of a deal[9], adding to the efforts of Special Presidential Envoy for Serbia and Kosovo Richard Grenell. Subsequent negotiations led to the Kosovo and Serbia economic normalization agreements signed at the White House in 2020[10]
In 2022, Palmer shifted to the Deputy Chief of Mission role at the US Embassy in London.
Author
[edit]Palmer long wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and write novels. “I understood what writing a novel involved,” he said in a 2015 interview. “I understood plot and character development and creating a story arc. This was dinner table conversation for us.”[2]
His first book, The American Mission, about a disgraced US diplomat who is drawn into a conspiracy over the trade in conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was published in 2014[11]. The book was one of NPR's “Best Books of 2014”[12] and was a finalist for the Silver Falchion award for best first novel[13]. Palmer said it took him about 10 years to write his first book.[4]
He subsequently published three more diplomatic thriller novels.[3]
Books
[edit]The American Mission (2014)
Secrets of State (2015)
The Wolf of Sarajevo (2016)
Enemy of the Good (2017)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Deputy Chief of Mission Matthew Palmer". US Department of State. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ a b c "'Secrets of State' A Conversation with Matthew Palmer". Huffington Post. May 27, 2015. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ a b "Matthew Palmer". Penguin Random House. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ a b c "YOUR SECRET'S SAFE WITH ME: DIPLOMATIC THRILLER WRITER MATTHEW PALMER '88". Wesleyan University. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "Matthew Palmer". LinkedIn. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "Matthew A. Palmer". US Department of State. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "Matthew Palmer's Appointment as Special Representative for the Western Balkans". US Department of State.
- ^ "US, European countries urge restart of Serbia-Kosovo talks". Associated Press. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "New U.S. Balkan Envoy Makes Mending Serbia-Kosovo Relations A Priority". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "Serbia and Kosovo sign economic normalization agreement in Oval Office ceremony". CNN. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "The American Mission". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "Our Guide To 2014's Great Reads". NPR. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "2015 Silver Falchion Awards: Killer Nashville Awards". Shots Magazine. Retrieved January 5, 2025.