Stephen D. Mull (born April 30, 1958) is a
Senior Foreign Service officer who was most recently the Acting
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
The Under Secretary for Political Affairs is currently the fourth-ranking position in the United States Department of State, after the secretary, the deputy secretary, and the deputy secretary of state for management and resources. The current und ...
. He previously served as
United States Ambassador to Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...
, Acting
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs
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and
United States Ambassador to Lithuania
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.
Ambassador Mull holds the rank of
Career Ambassador
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, the highest diplomatic rank in the United States Foreign Service.
On September 18, 2015, Mull was appointed as the United States Lead Coordinator for
Iran
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Nuclear Implementation, tasked with carrying out the terms of the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
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by
United States Secretary of State
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John Kerry
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.
Biography
Mull was born in
Reading, Pennsylvania
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. He graduated from
Georgetown University
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with a Bachelor of Science degree in International Politics in 1980.
Mull is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service in the
class
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of Career Ambassador. He previously served as the
Deputy Chief of Mission in
Jakarta
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,
Indonesia
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, and has served as a Consular or Political Officer for the U.S. Missions in Poland, the
Bahamas
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, and South Africa since the beginning of his career in the Foreign Service in 1982.
Prior to his assignment in Jakarta, Mull worked as Deputy Director of the State Department Operations Center, as Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in
Warsaw
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,
Poland
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, as Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs in the
Bureau of European Affairs
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, and as Deputy Executive Secretary in the Office of the Secretary of State.
On March 10, 2003, then-U.S. President
George W. Bush
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nominated Mull as the U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania. After being confirmed by the Senate, he assumed his position on August 26, 2003. He completed his tour of duty on July 18, 2006.
On April 30, 2009, Mull testified before the
U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on international efforts to combat
piracy off the coast of Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
.
Mull is married to Cheri Stephan. The Mulls have one child, Ryan.
Ambassador to Poland
Stephen Mull was appointed the
United States Ambassador to Poland
The history of ambassadors of the United States to Poland began in 1919.
Until the end of World War I, Poland had been partitioned between Russia, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. After the war and the collapse of the empires, Poland became an inde ...
on October 24, 2012. He speaks
Polish
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fluently.
Awards
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Director General's Award for Political Reporting, 1988
*
Superior Honor Award
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(four times)
*
Balker-Wilkins Award
*
Presidential Meritorious Service Award, 2003
*
Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
The Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland ( pl, Order Zasługi Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej) is a Polish order of merit created in 1974, awarded to persons who have rendered great service to Poland. It is granted to foreigners or Poles resident ab ...
(5th Class), 1997
*
Order for Merits to Lithuania
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(3rd Class), 2006
''Apdovanotų asmenų duomenų bazė''
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* Order of Polonia Restituta
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(2nd Class), 2015
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1958 births
Living people
Ambassadors of the United States to Lithuania
Ambassadors of the United States to Poland
Georgetown University alumni
Knights of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
Obama administration personnel
Politicians from Reading, Pennsylvania
United States Assistant Secretaries of State
United States Career Ambassadors
United States Foreign Service personnel