Carter Wilbur is the Deputy Chief of the Political-Economic Section at the United States Embassy in Cyprus. He covers macroeconomic issues, sanctions compliance and countering illicit finance, Cyprus political issues, as well as internal management of the section. He comes to Cyprus from a position in Washington, D.C. in the State Department’s Office of Multilateral Trade Affairs in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, where he worked on issues including medical supply chains, the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, WTO Accessions, the OECD Trade Committee, and Anti-Corruption chapters in FTAs. Prior to that, he was the foreign policy advisor to U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command. His previous assignments with the State Department include Baku, Azerbaijan; Washington D.C.; Kabul, Afghanistan; Lilongwe, Malawi; and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Prior to joining the State Department, Carter ran a charter yacht clearinghouse on St. Thomas, in the Caribbean after serving as first mate on several sailboats. He is married with a son.