About Ambassador Robert A. Wood
Ambassador Robert A. Wood most recently served as the U.S. Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in September 2022, serving until 2025.
Prior to his appointment to the U.N., Ambassador wood served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament and U.S. Special Representative for Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) Issues (2014-2021).
He previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the European Union from August 2013 to July 2014.
Before his service in Brussels, Ambassador Wood was the Deputy U.S. Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna, Austria from 2010 to 2013.
From 2008 to January 2010, Mr. Ambassador Wood was the State Department’s Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. During the first 6 months of the Obama Administration he served as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Acting State Department Spokesman.
Ambassador Wood has been a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State and the former U.S. Information Agency since 1988. From 2004 to 2008 he served as the Press Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany. Prior to his assignment to Berlin, he was Deputy Spokesman at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York (2001-2004).
In Washington, Ambassador Wood has worked as a public affairs advisor for the Bureau of African Affairs, as a special assistant to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, and in several positions dealing with the Balkans.
Ambassador Wood has also served in public affairs positions in Mexico City, Mexico; Lagos, Nigeria; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Pretoria, South Africa. He speaks German, Spanish and French.