Deputy Chief of Mission Phil Nervig
Phil Nervig is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe since August 2025. Previously, he served as the Economic Counselor at Embassy Manila since August 2023. Prior to that, he led the Political-Economic Section at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and was the Deputy Director in the Office of Economic Policy in the East Asia and Pacific Bureau. His other overseas assignments have included Indonesia, Zambia, Ukraine, and Laos.
Originally from Minnesota, Phil went to St. Olaf college for his undergraduate degree in economics and Russian language and received a Master’s in international finance from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Phil and his wife, Katherine, have two boys.