Adrian A. Basora
| Adrian A. Basora | |
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| 28th United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia | |
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In office July 20, 1992 – December 31, 1992 |
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| President | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Shirley Temple Black |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| 1st United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic | |
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In office January 1, 1993 – July 15, 1995 |
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| President |
George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | New creation |
| Succeeded by | Jenonne R. Walker |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
July 18, 1938 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Pauline Barnes |
| Alma mater |
Fordham University (AB) Institut d'études politiques (CEP) |
Adrian Anthony Basora (born July 18, 1938) is an American diplomat, and former United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute researching democratization in the post-Communist states of Europe and Central Asia, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Basora graduated with an AB from Fordham University in 1960 and a CEP at the Institut d'études politiques in 1962, and later earned an MPA at Princeton University.
Basora was a career diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. He spent his early career doing political and economic work in Peru and Paraguay, and press and cultural work in Romania. He served as Deputy Treasury Representative and then U.S. Commercial Attaché to France 1976-1980, where he engaged the French on various financial and economic issues, and counseled and advocated for U.S. firms. He was appointed Director of Development Finance in 1980, where he represented the State Department in various multilateral financial institutions. He returned to Paris in 1983 as U.S. Political Counselor. In 1986 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. While in that role he served as Deputy Negotiator in U.S.-Spanish base agreement talks addressing post-Franco frictions.
In 1989, Basora joined the White House staff as Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council, participating in reshaping U.S. policy after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He organized a high-level presidential mission to Poland to highlight U.S. support for post-Communist governments in Eastern Europe and helped design and launch U.S. and multilateral assistance programs to fund rapid economic transformation of former Soviet Bloc states.
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