Consul General Conrad Robert Tribble

Consul General Conrad R. Tribble

Conrad Tribble grew up in Los Angeles, California, joined the Foreign Service in 1987, and arrived in Munich to assume his duties as the 50th U.S. Consul General on August 7, 2009.

Consul General Tribble served in Santiago, Chile on his first assignment, then spent three years in Washington working on political-military affairs and European security issues.  Following two years as the State Department's Germany desk officer (1992-94), he was posted to Bonn from 1994-97.  During his first year he worked as an exchange diplomat in the German Foreign Office's EU enlargement division, after which he headed the Embassy's external political affairs section.  Returning to Washington, he served two years as Cyprus desk officer and three years managing the U.S. Northern Europe Initiative, a Baltic Sea regional program. 

As Political Counselor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti from 2003-05, Mr. Tribble worked closely with a UN peacekeeping mission sent to help restore stability after President Aristide resigned in 2004.  From 2005-06, he served as a Senior Watch Officer in the State Department's Operations Center.  He then attended the National War College at Ft. McNair, Class of 2007, where he earned Distinguished Graduate honors.  Most recently, Mr. Tribble led an embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, from 2008 through mid-2009.

The Consul General holds a B.A. in History from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California, and an M.A. in national security studies from the U.S. National War College. 

Prior to his Foreign Service experience in Germany, Mr. Tribble spent 1979-80 as a high school exchange student in Niedersachsen, studied at the University of Bonn, and worked as an intern in the Bundestag in 1982.  Mr. Tribble is a long-time choral singer as well as amateur rock band musician.  He is also a sports junkie; he plays baseball, basketball, and soccer, and has been a Bundesliga fan since 1979.  He speaks German, French, Spanish, and Haitian Creole.  He is married to Christina Tribble, also a U.S. diplomat, and has four children - Megan (18), Colin (15), Graham (4), and Kieran (3).  Mr. Tribble is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).