
Gloria Berbena
Gloria Berbena joined the U.S. Diplomatic Corps in 1989. A member of the Senior Foreign Service, Gloria assumed her current posting as Minister Counselor for Public Diplomacy to the U.S. Mission to India in October 2021. She previously served as Charge’ d’Affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica; as Minister Counselor for Public Diplomacy at the U.S. Embassy in Rome; as Senior Advisor to the Executive Secretary in Washington, D.C.; Executive Assistant/Chief of Staff to the Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs; and as Director of the Office of Public Diplomacy in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Other overseas service includes public diplomacy positions in Havana, Athens, Naples, Rome and Bangkok.
Gloria is a graduate of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs language programs in Spanish, Greek, Italian and Thai, and is the recipient of several Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards. In 2012, she received the State Department’s highest honor in the public diplomacy field, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy. Gloria is a native Californian and a graduate of the University of California.