Hans George Klemm (born August 21, 1957) is an

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diplomat who served as the

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from September 21, 2015, to December 2019. Previously he also served as the

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East Timor East Timor (), also known as Timor-Leste (), officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is an island country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-west ...

from June 12, 2007, to May 25, 2010. Klemm graduated from

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with a

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in Economics and History, and from Stanford University with an M.A in International Development Policy. He joined the

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in 1981 and was promoted into the

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in 2001. From 2012 to 2015 he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Human Resources. As of January 2015, Klemm served as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Management at the Department of State. In March 2015 President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Klemm as U.S. Ambassador to Romania. In September 2015, Klemm assumed the duties of U.S. Ambassador to Romania. Klemm's father was a German immigrant.

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: Knight of the Royal Decoration of Nihil Sine Deo

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* , - 1957 births Living people Ambassadors of the United States to East Timor Ambassadors of the United States to Romania Indiana University alumni Stanford University alumni United States Foreign Service personnel 21st-century American diplomats American people of German descent {{US-diplomat-stub

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