Carlos Pascual (diplomat)
| Carlos Pascual | |
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| United States Ambassador to Mexico | |
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In office August 9, 2009 – March 19, 2011 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Tony Garza |
| Succeeded by | Earl Anthony Wayne |
| United States Ambassador to Ukraine | |
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In office October 22, 2000 – May 1, 2003 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Succeeded by | John E. Herbst |
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| Born | 1959 (age 57–58) Havana, Cuba |
| Political party | Democratic |
Carlos Pascual (born 1959) is a Cuban-American diplomat and the former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico and Ukraine.
Pascual attended Bishop Amat Memorial High School in La Puente California and graduated in 1976. He then earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1980 and an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1982.
Pascual worked for USAID from 1983 to 1995 in Sudan, South Africa and Mozambique, and as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia. From July 1998 to January 2000, Pascual served as Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and from 1995 to 1998 as Director for the same region, from October 2000 until May 2003, as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.
He was then named Assistance Coordinator for Europe and Eurasia. In 2004, he was named Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization at the US Department of State.
Pascual worked as Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution where he presided over the creation of the Brookings Doha Center and the Brookings-Tsinghua Center.
Pascual was appointed the State Department's Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs in May 2011, succeeding David L. Goldwyn.
Pascual serves on the Board of Directors of Centrica, a British multinational electricity and gas utility company.
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