JEDDAH, 18 August 2005 — Tatiana C. Gfoeller has been appointed as the new US Consul General in Jeddah and has arrived to take up her duties. Her second tour of duty in Saudi Arabia, Gfoeller was stationed in Riyadh as political officer at the US Embassy in 1987 and 1988, only four years after she joined the Department of State in 1984.
Before she arrived in Jeddah, Gfoeller was deputy principal officer/acting consul general in Russia and the deputy chief of mission/charge d’affaires in Turkmenistan.
“I am delighted,” she said, “to serve again in the Kingdom. Jeddah was a favorite place of mine during my first posting to Saudi Arabia and I am especially pleased to have now become a resident of this beautiful city.”
Gfoeller has a Masters in Science from Georgetown University. She speaks Russian, French, Polish, Italian, Spanish and Arabic. Her husband, Michael, who is currently political officer in the US Embassy in Riyadh. They have one son.
