Michael Marine, U.S. Ambassador (Ret.)

Chief Executive Officer

Michael W. Marine, former U.S. Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, was appointed as the new chief executive officer of the Sabin Vaccine Institute on April 28, 2010.

Mr. Marine joined Sabin's leadership team in December 2009 after serving eight months on the Joint Action Committee of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an advocacy and resource mobilization initiative of Sabin.

He was a member of the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service for 32 years and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam from September 2004 to August 2007.

Earlier in his Foreign Service career, Mr. Marine was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassies in Beijing, China, Nairobi, Kenya, and Suva, Fiji. He also served in program direction positions in U.S. diplomatic posts in Moscow, Russia, Bonn, Germany, and Guangzhou, China.

Mr. Marine enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1967 and completed his service with the rank of Captain in 1971. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1974 with a degree in Asian Studies. He entered the Foreign Service in 1975. His early assignments were as a consular officer in Martinique, French West Indies and London, England, and as a political officer in Hong Kong. He received the State Department’s Superior Honor Award six times.