Marie L. Yovanovitch

Marie L. Yovanovitch
United States Ambassador to Armenia
Incumbent
Assumed office August 1, 2008
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	John Marshall Evans
United States Ambassador to Krygyzstan
In office June 30, 2005 – July 31, 2008

Marie L. Yovanovitch is the present Ambassador from the United States of America to Armenia. Her term of appointment started August 1, 2008. She is the first woman to hold this position. She was previously Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.

Ms. Marie L. Yovanovitch of Connecticut, a career member of the senior foreign service, Class of Counselor, was nominated on June 3, 2005 to serve as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kyrgyz Republic, and confirmed by the United States Senate on June 30, 2005.

Prior to her appointment as U.S. Ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch was the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from August 2004 to May 2005. From August 2001 to June 2004, she was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy Kiev, Ukraine. Prior to this assignment, from May 1998 to May 2000, she served as the Deputy Director of the Russian Desk. Her previous overseas assignments include Ottawa, Moscow, London, and Mogadishu. Ms. Yovanovitch joined the foreign service in 1986.

Ms. Yovanovitch is a graduate of Princeton University where she earned a BA in History and Russian Studies (1980). She has studied at the Pushkin Institute (1980) and received an MS from the National War College (2001).

Ms. Yovanovitch speaks Russian and French and is learning Kyrgyz and Armenian.

References

• "Marie L. Yovanovitch". U.S. Department of State. Archived from the original on 2007-07-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20070711033721/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/60841.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-12. 
• United States Embassy in Yerevan: The Ambassador
• "Marie L. Yovanovitch". U.S. Embassy in Yerevan. http://yerevan.usembassy.gov/news/2008/august/news080508.php. Retrieved 2008-09-02. ^{[dead link]}

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