Michael Stanley Klecheski is an American diplomat who formerly served as the
United States Ambassador to Mongolia from 2019 to 2022.
Education
Klecheski earned a
Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from
Georgetown University and a
Master of Arts and
Master of Philosophy from
Columbia University.
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Career
Klecheski served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan from 2013 to 2015 and in other overseas assignments in Russia, Iraq, Switzerland, and Poland.
Previous positions also included being Team Leader of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Diwaniyah in Iraq from 2009 to 2010, and the Political Counselor for the U.S. Mission in Geneva, Switzerland in 2007 to 2009. Prior to those positions, from 2006 to 2007 he served as the Director of the
National Security Council
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at The White House. He was also the Political Internal Unit Chief at the U.S. Embassy in Russia from 2003 to 2006 and prior to that, the Deputy Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia 2000 from 2003. He has also held the following positions: Senior Watch Officer, Operations Center from 1999 to 2000, as Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines from 1996 to 1999 and as Political/Economic Officer at the U.S. Consulate Krakow, Poland from 1992 to 1995. Before this, he served as a NATO Desk Officer from 1990 to 1992, and as Member of the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center from 1989 to 1990.
On August 13, 2018, President
Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Klecheski to be the next United States Ambassador to Mongolia.
He was confirmed by the
United States on January 2, 2019. He presented his credentials on February 22, 2019. He left this post on September 24, 2022.
Personal life
Klecheski is from
Queens,
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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. He speaks
Russian,
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
*Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...
,
French
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and
Tagalog
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Language
* Tagalog language, a language spoken in the Philippines
** Old Tagalog, an archaic form of the language
** Batangas Tagalog, a dialect of the language
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. He is married to Eloisa de Leon Klecheski. They have three children.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People from Queens, New York
Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni
Columbia University alumni
Ambassadors of the United States to Mongolia
21st-century American diplomats