Matthew O'Connor

Matthew O’Connor is a senior Foreign Service Officer at the Department of State and Professor of International Studies at the U.S. Army War College. His most recent State assignment was as senior energy officer in the Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR). His assignments prior to ENR were as political-military chief at U.S. Embassy Seoul; principal officer of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) in Kaohsiung; and senior Australia desk officer in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP) Office of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Island Affairs. Mr. O’Connor has also served as political-military chief at U.S. Embassy Baghdad and Consulate General Naha (Okinawa) and in the economic sections of AIT/Taipei, U.S. Embassy Tokyo, and Consulate General Shanghai.