Jimmy J. Kolker
| Jimmy J. Kolker | |
|---|---|
| 14th United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso | |
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In office November 16, 1999 – August 2, 2002 |
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| President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Sharon P. Wilkinson |
| Succeeded by | J. Anthony Holmes |
| 15th United States Ambassador to Uganda | |
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In office November 9, 2002 – September 30, 2005 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Martin George Brennan |
| Succeeded by | Steven A. Browning |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1948 (age 69–70) St. Louis, Missouri |
| Spouse(s) | Britt-Marie Forslund |
| Alma mater |
Carleton College Harvard University |
| Profession | Diplomat |
Jimmy J. Kolker (born 1948) is an American diplomat. He was the ambassador to Burkina Faso from 1999 to 2002 and Uganda from 2002 to 2005. He was Chief of the HIV/AIDS Section at UNICEF’s New York headquarters 2007-2011. 2011-2017, Amb. Kolker was Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC.
Now retired, Amb. Kolker serves on the boards of the ABInBev Foundation and Firelight Foundation. He is a visiting scholar at American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Georgetown U's Center for Global Health and Security and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is an advisor to Catholic Relief Services' Changing the Way We Care project and to Texas Children's Hospital's Global HOPE pediatric cancer initiative.
Kolker graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 1966.
Jimmy Kolker was born in 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated with a B.A., magna cum laude from Carleton College and received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship 1970-71, which he spent in Chad, Uganda and Ghana. Kolker earned a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University in 1983. He served for four years on the Senate staff of U.S. Senator James Abourezk.
Kolker joined the U.S. foreign service in 1977, and held diplomatic reporting posts in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. He then moved to management jobs as Deputy Chief of Mission at the American Embassy in Botswana from 1990 to 1994, and in Copenhagen, Denmark from 1996 to 1999.
President Bill Clinton nominated Kolker as United States Ambassador to Burkina Faso on July 1, 1999, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in November, 1999. He left the post on August 2, 2002.
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