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United States Ambassador To Slovakia
Until 1992 the Slovak Republic had been united with the Czech Republic as the nation of Czechoslovakia. Following World War II, a U.S. consulate was established in Bratislava, but the consulate was closed on May 27, 1950, on the order of the Czechoslovak government, at the height of the Cold War. In 1990 the consulate was reestablished in Bratislava. The Consulate was upgraded to the status of Consulate General on October 21, 1991. In June 1992, the Slovak parliament voted to declare sovereignty and the Czech-Slovak federation dissolved peacefully on January 1, 1993. The United States recognized the Slovak Republic as an independent state and established diplomatic relations with it on January 1, 1993. The embassy in Bratislava was established January 4, 1993, with Paul Hacker as Chargé d’Affaires ''ad interim''. He was replaced by Eleanor Sutter on July 7, 1993. The first ambassador, Theodore E. Russell was commissioned to Slovakia on November 22, 1993. The United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gautam Rana
Gautam A. Rana is an American lawyer and diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Slovakia since September 2022. Early life and education Rana earned both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He then received a Juris Doctor from the Vanderbilt University School of Law, and then a Master of Arts from the National Defense University. Career Rana is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, with the rank of Counselor. He served as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Algeria. Before this, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Rana was also focused on Afghanistan and Pakistan during his stint on the National Security Council and previously served as the Deputy Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. Rana has served in various roles within the United States Department of State, working in Iraq, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Spielvogel
Carl Spielvogel (December 27, 1928 – April 21, 2021) was an American marketing executive and diplomat. He co-founded the advertising firm of Backer and Spielvogel (with Bill Backer), where he served as Chairman and CEO. Spielvogel has conducted trade and commerce in 45 countries during a 40-year career. He was the chairman and CEO of Carl Spielvogel Associates, Inc., an international investment, management and marketing company. He was appointed to the Broadcasting Board of Governors's first board in 1995 by President Bill Clinton. In 2000 he became the United States Ambassador to Slovakia, nominated as a recess appointment. He presented his credentials on September 7, 2000, and served in that post until April 15, 2001. He was a member of the Council of American Ambassadors, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also served as chairman of the United Auto Group and was elected to the board of many companies. Early life and work Spielvogel was born to a Jewish family in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Ambassadors Of The United States
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambassadors Of The United States
Ambassadors of the United States are persons nominated by the president to serve as the country's diplomatic representatives to foreign nations, international organizations, and as ambassadors-at-large. Under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, their appointment must be confirmed by the United States Senate; while an ambassador may be appointed during a recess, they can serve only until the end of the next session of Congress, unless subsequently confirmed. Ambassadors are the highest-ranking diplomats of the U.S. and are usually based in the embassy in the host country. They are under the jurisdiction of the Department of State and answer directly to the secretary of state; however, ambassadors serve " at the pleasure of the President", meaning they can be dismissed at any time. Appointments change regularly for various reasons, such as reassignment or retirement. An ambassador may be a career Foreign Service Officer (career diplomatCD) or a political appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Relations Of Slovakia
Slovak Republic has been a member of European Union since 2004. Slovakia has been an active participant in U.S.- and NATO-led military actions. There is a joint Czech-Slovak peacekeeping force in Kosovo. After the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack on the United States, the government opened its airspace to coalition planes. In June 2002, Slovakia announced that they would send an engineering brigade to Afghanistan. Slovak Republic is a member of the United Nations and participates in its specialized agencies. It is a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the OECD. It also is part of the Visegrád Group (Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Poland), a forum for discussing areas of common concern. Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic entered into a Customs Union upon the division of Czechoslovakia in 1993, which facilitates a relatively free flow of goods and services. Slovak Republic maintains d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovakia – United States Relations
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the southwest, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's mostly mountainous territory spans about , with a population of over 5.4 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava, while the second largest city is Košice. The Slavs arrived in the territory of present-day Slovakia in the fifth and sixth centuries. In the seventh century, they played a significant role in the creation of Samo's Empire. In the ninth century, they established the Principality of Nitra, which was later conquered by the Great Moravia, Principality of Moravia to establish Great Moravia. In the 10th century, after the dissolution of Great Moravia, the territory was integrated into the Principality of Hungary, which then became the Kingdom of Hungary in 100 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Brink
Bridget Ann Brink is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. In April 2022, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the United States ambassador to Ukraine, and presented her credentials in May 2022. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Slovakia from August 20, 2019, until May 18, 2022. Early life and education Brink is a native of Michigan, the daughter of John and Gwen Brink. She graduated from East Grand Rapids High School in 1987. Brink earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Kenyon College and a master's in international relations and political theory from the London School of Economics.U.S. Department of State, Biography of Bridget A. Brink, accessed Nov. 5, 2019/ref> Career After joining the United States Department of State in 1996, Brink served as a consular political officer in the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade from 1997 to 1999. She then served as a Cyprus desk officer until 2002, and as a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam H
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations in later Judais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Sedgwick (diplomat)
Theodore “Tod” Sedgwick is the former US Ambassador to the Slovak Republic from 2010 to 2015 and President and CEO of Sedgwick Publishing Co. (1987-2010). Since 2015, he is a Fellow at the Transatlantic Center at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Study and a Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. While CEO of Sedgwick Publishing, he was also President and CEO of Red Hills Lumber Co. (2000 to 2008) and Director of Sedgwick Land Company (1992 to 1998). Sedgwick founded IO Energy and served as its Chairman from 2001 to 2004. He was CEO of Pasha Publications, another company he founded, from 1978-1998. On June 3, 2016, President Barack Obama appointed Sedgwick Commissioner to the United States World War One Centennial Commission. Education Sedgwick received an A.B. from Harvard College. Family Sedgwick’s great-great-grandfather is Theodore Sedgwick (1746-1813), a member of the Continental Congress who served in the U.S. Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Obsitnik
Vincent Obsitnik (born 1938) was sworn-in as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Slovak Republic on November 9, 2007 and served in this role until January 20, 2009. Prior to his current appointment, Ambassador Obsitnik was appointed in 2006 by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Presidential Delegation to the Commemoration of the 65th Anniversary of the Tragedy in Babyn Yar in Ukraine. In 2005, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Presidential Delegation for the Austrian State Treaty Anniversary. In October 2001, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and served as a member of the Commission until July 2006. The purpose of the Commission is to be concerned about the cultural heritage of Americans from Central and Eastern Europe. Ambassador Obsitnik worked to bring international attention to the plight of the 17th and 18th cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolphe M
Rudolph or Rudolf may refer to: People * Rudolph (name), the given name including a list of people with the name Religious figures * Rudolf of Fulda (died 865), 9th century monk, writer and theologian * Rudolf von Habsburg-Lothringen (1788–1831), Archbishop of Olomouc and member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine Royalty and nobility *Rudolph I (other) *Rudolph II (other) *Rudolph III (other) * Rudolph of France (died 936) * Rudolph I of Germany (1218–1291) * Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612) * Rudolph, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1576–1621) * Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (1858–1889), son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (died at Mayerling) Places * Rudolph Glacier, Antarctica * Rudolph, South Dakota, US * Rudolph, Wisconsin, US, a village * Rudolph (town), Wisconsin, adjacent to the village * Rudolf Island, northernmost island of Europe * Lake Rudolf, now Lake Turkana, in Kenya Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Weiser
Ronald N. Weiser is an American businessman and Republican Party activist, donor and financier. Weiser founded a real estate company. He held fundraising roles for the presidential campaigns of George W. Bush and John McCain. He was chairman of the Michigan Republican Party from 2009–2011, 2017–2019, and 2021–present. He was U.S. ambassador to Slovakia during the Bush's first term (2001–2004) and was elected to the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan in 2016. Early life, education and real estate career He was born in South Bend, Indiana on July 7, 1945. He graduated in 1966 from the School of Business at University of Michigan. In 1968, Weiser founded the real estate company McKinley Associates Inc., which is based in Ann Arbor. He has been its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 2001, and again upon his return from Slovakia to the present. In 2016, McKinley reportedly had $500 million in annual revenue, and had a real estate portfoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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