Ronald E. Neumann currently serves as  Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the State of  Bahrain. 

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs from 1997 to 2000 and was Ambassador to Algeria from 1994 to 1997. From 1991 to 1994, Neumann served as the Director of the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.  He has completed a variety of other assignments both in Washington, D.C., and overseas and has received several awards for his service.  He earned both an undergraduate and Master's degree from the University of California at Riverside.