Foreign Service Officer, United States Department of State
Hammad Bassam Hammad is a career member of the United States Foreign Service. He currently teaches foreign policy at Georgetown University as a State Department Rusk Fellow. He previously served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State, where he advised the Deputy Secretary on the Western Hemisphere, foreign assistance, human rights, migration, counter-narcotics, conflict prevention, religious freedom, and trafficking in persons. Hammad’s other Foreign Service assignments include Mexico City, Mexico; the Libya External Office in Tunis, Tunisia; Caracas, Venezuela; and the Kuwait desk in Washington, D.C. He serves as Vice President for State of glifaa, which promotes diversity and equity in U.S. foreign affairs agencies and LGBT+ human rights around the world. He was named a 2020 Atlantic Council LGBTI in Foreign Affairs Fellow, an Out in National Security Leader, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to the State Department, Hammad served as a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands and co-founded Inspire Dreams, an NGO focused on youth programs for refugees in the West Bank. Hammad holds an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, an M.A. in Conflict Studies and Human Rights from Utrecht University, and a B.S. in International Politics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Hammad is a fluent Spanish and Arabic speaker.