# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-j-ricciardone-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-16T00:21:41.242Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-j-ricciardone-jr"
name: "Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr."
slug: "francis-j-ricciardone-jr"
description: "Francis Joseph Ricciardone Jr. is a former President of the American University in Cairo. Ricciardone was the United States ambassador to Turkey between 2011 and 2014. Previously he was Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. He was also on leave from the U.S. Department of State as a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt (2005–2008), the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau (2002–2005). As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he received U.S. government and other organization awards for his work in foreign policy and program management, political reporting and analysis, and peacekeeping."
tagline: "American diplomat"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Francis_Ricciardone_ambassador_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.476746666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_J._Ricciardone_Jr."
    title: "Francis J. Ricciardone Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%87_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسيس جيه ريكياردون الابن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Ricciardone"
    title: "Francis Ricciardone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_J._Ricciardone%2C_Jr."
    title: "Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D8%AC%DB%8C._%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1"
    title: "فرانسیس جی. ریکیاردون جونیور"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_J._Ricciardone_Jr."
    title: "Francis J. Ricciardone Jr."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1441708"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump