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Roman Popadiuk ( uk, Рома́н Попадю́к) (born May 30, 1950) is an American diplomat of Ukrainian descent. Popadiuk served as the first
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under George H. W. Bush, from 1992 to 1993.TAMU biography
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/ref> From 2015 until 2017 he was a principal at
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's subsidiary Morgan Lewis Consulting, and prior to 2015 he was the principal at Bingham Consulting. Since late 2018 Popadiuk has been the president of the Diplomacy Center Foundation which oversees the development of the
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Background

Roman Popadiuk was born on May 30, 1950 in a DP camp in
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to Ukrainian parents brought to Germany as forced laborers.Reagan appointment
/ref> He received a B.A. from Hunter College in 1973, and a PhD from
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in 1981. He was an adjunct lecturer in Political Science at Brooklyn College in
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. He joined the United States Foreign Service in 1981. From 1982 to 1984, he worked as a diplomat in
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. From 1984 to 1986, he worked in the Department of State and in the National Security Council. From 1986 to 1989, he served as Assistant Press Secretary, then Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Assistant under Ronald Reagan. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs under George H. W. Bush, from 1989 to 1992. He served as the first
United States Ambassador to Ukraine The history of ambassadors of the United States to Ukraine began in 1992. Until 1991, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic had been a constituent SSR of the Soviet Union. History Upon the breakup of the USSR, the parliament of Ukraine declar ...
under George H.W. Bush from 1992 to 1993. From 1993 to 1995, he taught at the Foreign Service Institute. From 1995 to 1998, he served as the International Affairs Adviser on the staff of the Office of the Commandant at the
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at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. For 13 years from 1999–2012, he served as the Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation at Texas A&M University in
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. From 2012 until 2015 he was the principal at Bingham Consulting,The Honorable Roman Popadiuk
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and from 2015 until 2017Roman Popadiuk
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he was a principal at
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's subsidiary Morgan Lewis Consulting,Roman Popadiuk, Principal
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In 2012 Popadiuk became a member of the U.S.-Ukraine Energy Task Force of the Ukraine 2020 Policy Dialogue, a forum co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation in Washington, D.C., aimed at strengthening U.S.-Ukraine relations and Ukraine's integration into Europe. On 24 October 2018DIPLOMACY CENTER FOUNDATION
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Roman Popadiuk replaced Thomas E. McNamara as the President of the Diplomacy Center Foundation (DCF), formerly the Foreign Affairs Museum Council, the private partner in a public private partnership with the United States Department of State to design, build and complete a museum on American diplomacy,
National Museum of American Diplomacy The National Museum of American Diplomacy (NMAD) is the first museum in the United States dedicated to telling the stories of American diplomacy. Its mission is to inspire discovery of how American diplomacy shapes the nation's prosperity and ...
(formerly United States Diplomacy Center).Leadership
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He has served on the DCF Board for five years prior to taking over the role of the President in 2018.


Awards and Affiliations

He has received a number of awards, including the
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Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards. Other awards include the Annual Achievement Award from the Ukrainian Institute of America, the Shevchenko Freedom Award presented by the
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, and the Hunter College Hall of Fame. Popadiuk is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the Board of Advisers of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at
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at Texas A&M University. he is on the Board of Advisers of the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University and the Washington, D.C.-based U.S.-Ukraine Business Council.


Personal life

He is married to Judith Ann Fedkiw, and they have four children, Gregory, Matthew, Catherine and Mary.


Bibliography

Popadiuk has published two books and numerous articles in, among others, '' The Ukrainian Quarterly'', '' The Foreign Service Journal'', ''
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'', and '' Presidential Studies Quarterly''. *''American-Ukrainian Nuclear Relations'' (monograph, 1996) *''The President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board: Learning Lessons from Its Past to Shape Its Future'' (monograph, 2008, co-author) *''The Leadership of George Bush: An Insider’s View of the 41st President'' (2009) *''Privileged and Confidential: The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board'' (2012, co-author)


See also

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References

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