Alison Dilworth

Alison Dilworth
Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to Saudi Arabia

Alison Dilworth is the Chargé d’Affaires ad interim to Saudi Arabia. She is from Illinois, and joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1997. She has served in Asuncion, Jerusalem, Cairo, Warsaw, and Abu Dhabi. She has held domestic positions in the Secretary of State’s Operations Center and in the Bureau of Consular Affairs. Alison graduated with a Bachelor’s in the School of Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a JD from American University Washington College of Law. In 2013 she graduated from the National War College with a Master’s Degree in Strategic Security Studies. Alison is married to a Foreign Service Officer and has three very loud boys, ages twenty-four, twenty-two and seventeen. She is an avid runner, and has a soccer watching problem.

U.S. Embassy Riyadh

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Our Mission began as a legation in Jeddah in 1943.  Full diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia commenced in 1948 and the U.S. Mission, located in a traditional house in the old city center, was upgraded to the status of an Embassy.

The Embassy moved in 1952 to the current Consulate General location, which at the time was an isolated, beach-front property to the north of the city limits.  Along with all other foreign missions, the Embassy was transferred to Riyadh in 1984. The former Embassy compound in Jeddah is now our Consulate General for the dynamic Western Region of Saudi Arabia. Our Mission also includes a Consulate General in Dhahran, which covers the Eastern Province.