Edmund McWilliams

Edmund McWilliams is an American diplomat and previous United States Ambassador to Tajikistan.

Ed McWilliams entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1975, and served in Vientiane, Bangkok, Thailand, Moscow, Russia, Kabul, Afghanistan, Islamabad, Managua, Nicaragua.

In 1992, McWilliams opened the embassies in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan and Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and served as Chargé d'Affaires at each of them. He opened the embassy in Bishkek on February 1, and in Dushanbe on March 13, and he served as Chargé d'Affaires and interim ambassador in Dushanbe until October of that year.

From 1996 to 1999, he worked as a political counselor in Jakarta.

In 1998, McWilliams received the American Foreign Service Association's Christian Herter Award for creative dissent by a senior FSO.

Later, he worked in Washington.

Since his retirement from the Foreign Service in 2001, McWilliams has been volunteering with U.S. and foreign human rights NGOs.

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* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/11315.htm Tajikistan relations at U.S. State Dept.]
* [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/po/com/10901.htm Kyrgyz relations at U.S. State Dept.]
* [http://www.etan.org/et2005/may/15/14ed.htm Ed McWilliams: Making a Tragic Mistake in Indonesia]