Richard E. Hoagland

The Honorable Richard Eugene Hoagland
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Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Grenoble University of Virginia
Occupation	Diplomat

Richard Eugene Hoagland (born in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a career ambassador in the United States Department of State. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in State’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, 2013-2015. In the summer of 2016, based at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan, he was the senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Russian military base in Latakia, Syria. Beginning January 2017, he will serve as interim U.S. Co-Chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Minsk Group for Nagorno-Karabakh.

From January 2011 to October 2013, he was the United States Deputy Ambassador to Pakistan, a title rarely used by State, but which has been used in other countries where the U.S. has a difficult diplomatic mission (notably in Embassy of the United States, Kabul as currently structured and in the structure of the U.S. mission to South Vietnam in the 1960s). The title Deputy Ambassador carries more political responsibility and weight than the more common title of Deputy Chief of Mission.

Before Ambassador Hoagland’s service in Pakistan, he was the U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan from 2008 to January 2011. He previously served as the Ambassador to Tajikistan 2003–06, and as the Chargé d'affaires to Turkmenistan July 2007-July 2008.

Prior to that, Ambassador Hoagland was Director of the Office of Caucasus and Central Asian Affairs in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Department of State, June 2001-July 2003. In that position, he wrote and negotiated four of the key bilateral documents defining the Central Asian states’ enhanced relationship with the United States. After September 11, 2001, he initiated regular U.S.-Russia consultations in response to the mandate by Presidents Bush and Putin that the two governments work together to increase their collaboration and transparency in Central Asia and the Caucasus. In July 2002, this consultative group became part of the ongoing U.S.-Russia Counterterrorism Working Group.

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