Alan Eyre
Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow, Middle East Institute
Alan Eyre is a distinguished diplomatic fellow at the Middle East Institute and the founder and president of EyreAnalytics LLC. He retired from the United States Foreign Service in September 2023 after a 40-year government career.
Most of Eyre’s government service related to the Middle East and North Africa region, with a focus on Iran. He was the sole U.S. career diplomat to be a core member of the U.S. nuclear negotiating team from its 2010 start to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement with Iran, serving as the team’s Iran subject matter expert and also as the State Department’s first Persian-language spokesperson. He was also the first U.S. diplomat to serve in the political section of the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Kabul in late 2001. In addition, he served as director of the Iran Regional Presence Office at the U.S. Consulate in Dubai, the State Department’s main field office for monitoring Iran. His overseas tours include Nigeria, Syria, the United Arab Emirates (twice), Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, and Jordan, where in his final tour he served as political counselor. His only Washington assignment was as director of the Office for Middle East and Asia in the Bureau of Energy Resources.
