Geoffrey Ross Pyatt (born November 16, 1963)
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'', 5 August 2013. is a United States diplomat serving as
Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. He was previously
United States Ambassador to Greece
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;1868–1899:
*Charles K. Tuckerman, Charles Keating Tuckerman (Minister 1868–71)
*John M. Francis (Minister 1871 ...
and
Ukraine
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. Pyatt's career in the
U.S. State Department
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has led to posts in
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Europe
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, and
Central America
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.
Early life and education
Pyatt was born in
La Jolla, a suburb of
San Diego
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,
California
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,
[ the son of Kedar “Bud” Pyatt, and ]Mary Mackenzie
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. He received a bachelor's degree in political studies in 1985 at the University of California, Irvine
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, and a master's degree in international relations
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at Yale University
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in 1987.[
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Career
Pyatt started his diplomatic career in Honduras
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from 1990 until 1992 as vice-consul and economic officer in Tegucigalpa
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. He was deputy chief of diplomatic mission in India
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in 2006 and 2007. After that he worked as deputy chief of U.S. mission to International Atomic Energy Agency
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and other international organizations in Vienna
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. Pyatt served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs from May 2010 until July 2013.[Yanukovych accepts credentials from new US ambassador, discusses with him Ukrainian-US relations]
, Interfax-Ukraine
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(15 August 2013)
Pyatt took the Oath of Office
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of United States Ambassador to Ukraine on July 30, 2013 in the Harry S Truman Building
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of the US State Department in Washington, D.C.
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Ukrainian President
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Viktor Yanukovych accepted Pyatt's credentials on August 15, 2013.Ukrainian language
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. On October 15, 2013 Pyatt attended an international conference on fighting anti-Semitism
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in Kyiv
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, but could not address the audience at the event due to the United States federal government shutdown of 2013.
Pyatt became part of a diplomatic scandal in January 2014, when his conversation with the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State, Victoria Nuland, was apparently intercepted and uploaded to YouTube
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. The conversation included offensive remarks by Nuland towards the European Union, which were harshly criticized by the President of the European Council
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Herman van Rompuy
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and by German Chancellor
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Angela Merkel.2014 Ukrainian revolution
The Revolution of Dignity ( uk, Революція гідності, translit=Revoliutsiia hidnosti) also known as the Maidan Revolution or the Ukrainian Revolution, against Ukraine's President Victor Yanukovych.[ Pyatt characterised pro-Russian separatist rebels in ]Donetsk
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and Luhansk as "terrorists".
On September 25, 2015, during his speech at Odesa Financial Forum, Pyatt criticized Ukrainian Prosecutor's office.
On May 19, 2016, he was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama
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to serve as United States Ambassador to Greece
This is a list of United States ambassadors to Greece.
List of ambassadors
List of ambassadors from the United States to Greece.
;1868–1899:
*Charles K. Tuckerman, Charles Keating Tuckerman (Minister 1868–71)
*John M. Francis (Minister 1871 ...
. He was replaced by Marie L. Yovanovitch
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in Ukraine. He was confirmed as the Ambassador to Greece on July 14, 2016. He was sworn in September 2016. He presented his credentials on October 24, 2016. He served in the post for 5 years until his resignation in 2022.
On April 22, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Pyatt to the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. The Senate confirmed his nomination on September 15, 2022, and he was sworn in on September 19.
Personal life
Pyatt speaks Spanish.
See also
* List of current ambassadors of the United States
References
External links
Official website
of the US embassy in Ukraine
The Embassy of the United States of America in Kyiv is the diplomatic mission of the United States to Ukraine.
History
The United States recognized the independence of Ukraine on December 26, 1991, and opened an embassy in its capital, Kyiv, on ...
Biography on the official website
of the US State Department
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1963 births
United States Assistant Secretaries of State
Ambassadors of the United States to Greece
Ambassadors of the United States to Ukraine
Living people
People from La Jolla, San Diego
University of California, Irvine alumni
Yale University alumni
21st-century American diplomats