Junaid “Jay” Munir is the Deputy Chief Mission at the United States Embassy in Oman.  Prior to his work in Oman, he served as the Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy to Yemen, resident in Riyadh.  He also served as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East and North Africa, Ambassador Anne W. Patterson.

Jay has previously been posted to Algeria, France, Pakistan, Syria, Tunisia, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.  He began his career as a lawyer, clerking for Judge Alan Gold in the U.S. Southern District of Florida, and working for the law firms of Kirkland & Ellis in Washington, D.C. and Greenberg Traurig in Miami, Florida. Munir, a Michigan native, graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, majoring in political science, and earned his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the student government.

He speaks French, Arabic, and Urdu. He and his wife have one son.