Ambassador of the USA to Ukraine
Marie Yovanovitch is the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. She previously
served as Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011) and the Kyrgyz
Republic (2005-2008). She most recently served as the Dean of the School of
Language Studies at the Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State.
Previously she was the International Advisor and Deputy Commandant at the
Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy,
National Defense University. Earlier she served as the Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs and before
that as the bureau’s Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for issues related
to the Nordic, Baltic, and Central European countries.
In 2003-2004, Ambassador Yovanovitch was the
Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. Prior to
that, she was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Within the Department of State, Ambassador Yovanovitch has worked on the Russia
desk, the Office of European Security Affairs, and the Operations Center. She
has also worked overseas at the U.S. Embassies in Moscow, London, Ottawa, and
Mogadishu.
A Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service,
Ambassador Yovanovitch has been granted the Senior Foreign Service Performance
Award six times and the State Department’s Superior Honor Award on five
occasions. She is also the recipient of the Presidential Distinguished Service
Award and the Secretary’s Diplomacy in Human Rights Award.
Ambassador Yovanovitch is a graduate of
Princeton University where she earned a BA in History and Russian Studies. She
studied at the Pushkin Institute and received an MS from the National Defense
University.