Timmy Davis is a Senior Advisor at Catalio Capital Management, LP. His primary responsibility is advising Catalio on geopolitical and macroeconomic matters, with a focus on the Middle East.
Timmy Davis served as U.S. Ambassador to the State of Qatar from 2022 to 2025. Ambassador Davis served as Executive Assistant to Secretaries of State Pompeo and Blinken. He was also Special Assistant to Secretary of State Clinton, He served as U.S. Consul General for southern Iraq and his other overseas tours include Guatemala City; Najaf, Iraq; Canberra, Australia; and Bogota, Colombia. His domestic assignments include Senior Watch Officer in the State Department Operations Center, Director for Iraq at the NSC; the White House, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Special Presidential Envoy to Counter-ISIS, Senior Advisor to the Counselor of the Department, Chief of Staff to the Undersecretary for Political Affairs and Acting Chief of Staff of the Department of State.
Ambassador Davis holds a Distinguished Honor Award. He is also the recipient of the State Department’s Ryan C. Crocker Award for Outstanding Leadership in Expeditionary Diplomacy and the American Foreign Service Association’s William R. Rivkin Award for Constructive Dissent.
Ambassador Davis is the founder and principal at Davis Advisory Group LLC., an international advisory firm.
A native of Virginia, he considers New Orleans his home. Ambassador Davis attended the University of Alabama and served in the United States Marine Corps for a decade. Ambassador Davis speaks Spanish and Arabic.