John Desrocher

John Paul Desrocher (born October 14, 1964) is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2017 to 2021. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service who has served as an American diplomat since 1988.

Desrocher is a graduate of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served as Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, and then, from 2006 and 2009, he was the U.S. Consul General in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2009 and 2010, he was the Minister Counselor for Economic Coordination in Baghdad, Iraq.