Ian C. Kelly
| Ian Kelly | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| United States Ambassador to Georgia | |
|
Assumed office September 17, 2015 |
|
| President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
| Deputy | Nicholas Berliner |
| Preceded by | Richard Norland |
| United States Ambassador to the OSCE | |
|
In office March 11, 2010 – September 9, 2013 |
|
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Julie Finley |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Baer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Ian Crawford Kelly 1953 (age 63–64) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
St. Olaf College Northwestern University Columbia University |
Ian Crawford Kelly (born 1953) is an American statesman and senior foreign service officer who is the current United States Ambassador to Georgia. He previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 2010 to 2013. Prior to his ambassadorship, Kelly held a variety of high-level roles at the U.S. State Department, including serving as the department spokesman under Secretary Hillary Clinton, and has extensive experience working on issues relating to NATO, Russia, and the Balkans.
Before beginning his career at the State Department, Kelly taught Russian at Columbia University, where he also received his doctorate in Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1986. He also holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College and a M.A. from Northwestern University. After joining the Foreign Service, he served in a variety of positions, including the Director of the Information Center in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from 1990 to 1992, and Assistant Cultural Affairs Officer in Leningrad and Moscow, U.S.S.R. from 1987 to 1990. In these capacities, Kelly was involved in setting up embassies across the former Soviet Republics, a task that took him to all 15 newly independent states. He has studied Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center of the State Department.
In 1994, Kelly was appointed Director of Democratic Initiatives to the Newly Independent States (NIS) at the State Department where he coordinated the activities of nearly a dozen federal agencies involved in democracy building in the former Soviet Union, and oversaw an annual budget of around $80 million. He later served as Press Attaché at the American Embassy in Ankara (1997-2000), Press Attaché at Embassy Rome (2000-2004), and Public Affairs Advisor at the U.S. Mission to NATO (2004-2007).
...
Wikipedia