Aldona Wos

Aldona Zofia Wos was the United States Ambassador to Estonia until early December 2006. She was the fifth ambassador to Estonia since that country attained independence in 1991. She is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Women's Medical Association, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the North Carolina Medical Society, and the Greater Greensboro Society of Medicine. She is an avid Republican fund-raiser, she was appointed to the North Carolina State Chair of Women for Senator Elizabeth Dole, and the North Carolina Finance Co-Chair for the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign.

She was born in Warsaw, Poland. Wos has a medical degree from Warsaw Medical Academy. She is the daughter of Paul Zenon Wos, a Flossenbürg concentration camp survivor.

On December 1, 2006 the online site of the local Estonian daily "Postimees" proclaimed that Wos would on December 4th with great probability announce her leaving her post as ambassador, [ [http://www.postimees.ee/011206/esileht/siseuudised/232000.php?r=] et icon] which she did. [http://www.postimees.ee/051206/esileht/siseuudised/232359.php] et icon] The very next day, the U.S. Embassy in Estonia announced that her successor would become Stanley Davis Phillips. He was sworn in on April 16, 2007. [http://www.postimees.ee/170407/esileht/siseuudised/255638.php et icon]

As a physician, Wos prided herself on her work in the field of informing and preventing HIV and AIDS. Though, her largest accomplishment as ambassador to Estonia was being part in organizing the state visit of president George W. Bush to Estonia, which took place on 27th and 28th of November 2006.

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* [http://estonia.usembassy.gov/aldonawos.php Ambassador Wos] - US Embassy in Estonia bio on Wos