Kyle Randolph Scott | |
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United States Ambassador to Serbia | |
Assumed office February 5, 2016 |
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President |
Barack Obama Donald Trump |
Deputy | Kurt Donnelly |
Preceded by | Michael David Kirby |
Personal details | |
Born | United States |
Alma mater |
Arizona State University Thunderbird School of Global Management |
Kyle Randolph Scott is a U.S. diplomat in the Senior Foreign Service and the current U.S. Ambassador to Serbia.
Scott attended Arizona State University, earning a bachelor of arts in German language and literature while also minoring in Russian. He then went on to the Thunderbird School of Global Management, studying international business and finance.
Scott’s early State Department assignments included Croatia, Israel, and Switzerland. In 1994, Scott was a national security fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Scott served as a political counselor at the embassies in Moscow and Budapest in the late 1990s.
In 2003, Scott was a political minister-counselor at the U.S. mission to the European Union. In 2005, he was named deputy chief of mission at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, based in Vienna.
Scott returned to Washington in 2009 as director of the Office of Russian Affairs in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Under his watch, the United States and Russia cooperated on Iranian issues and began to negotiate the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) agreement to reduce nuclear weapon stockpiles, launchers and heavy bombers.