Mark Brzezinski

Mark Francis Brzezinski (born 1965) is an American lawyer, diplomat, and foreign policy expert who has been confirmed as Ambassador to Sweden by the United States Senate. He is the son of Polish-born former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski and the grandson of Polish diplomat Tadeusz Brzeziński. His sister is Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the morning talk show Morning Joe.

Biography

Brzezinski graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts in government, earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School, and holds a D.Phil. in political science from Oxford University. He also earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study the Polish Constitutional Court.

He was a corporate and securities associate at Hogan & Hartson LLP in Washington, D.C. from 1996-1999.

From 1999-2001, Mr. Brzezinski served in the Clinton administration as a director of Russian/Eurasian — and later Southeast European affairs - of the National Security Council at the White House. In that capacity, he was White House coordinator for U.S. democracy and rule of law assistance programs for the region.

He married Carolyn M. Campbell, a lawyer, in 1991^[1] and then married a second time to Natalia Lopatniuk in 2008.^[2]

Brzezinski was a foreign policy advisor to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama,^[3] and was later appointed Ambassador to Sweden by Obama.^[4]

References

1. ^ Carolyn M. Campbell Is to Marry Mark Brzezinski, a Fellow Lawyer - New York Times
2. ^ Congratulations Natalia Lopatniuk & Mark Brzezinski. September 6, 2008.
3. ^ "The Talent Primary". Newsweek.com. http://www.newsweek.com/id/40772. 
4. ^ "Seven ambassadors confirmed by Senate". The Hill's Floor Action Blog (The Hill). October 18, 2011. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/188347-seven-ambassadors-confirmed-by-senate. 

External links

• Profile at the Globalist
• Profile at McGuireWoods

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