David Satterfield is an American diplomat and ambassador who currently serves as the Director of Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, a position he assumed following an announcement on May 31, 2022. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 18, 1954, he graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a Bachelor of Arts in 1976.
Satterfield entered the Foreign Service in 1980, beginning a nearly thirty-year career.