Thomas J. Barrack was nominated by President Trump to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Türkiye in March 2025, and Special Envoy for Syria in May 2025, and Special Envoy to Iraq in May 2026. Ambassador Barrack is the Founder and former Chairman and CEO of Colony Capital, Inc., a Los Angeles-based global private equity investment firm (now DigitalBridge), one of the world’s largest digital infrastructure investors with approximately $80 billion in assets in 19 countries. His companies have invested more than $200 billion of capital across nearly every continent and a multitude of industries.
