Ross Wilson (ambassador)

Ross Wilson
United States Ambassador to Turkey
In office 2005–2008
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Eric S. Edelman
Succeeded by	James Franklin Jeffrey
United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan
In office October 11, 2000 – April 24, 2003
President	Bill Clinton George W. Bush
Preceded by	Stanley Tuemler Escudero
Succeeded by	Reno L. Harnish
Personal details
Born	1955 (age 61–62) Minneapolis, Minnesota
Spouse(s)	Margo Squire
Children	2
Profession	Career FSO

Ross L. Wilson (born 1955) is a former U.S. foreign service officer and ambassador. He was the United States Ambassador to Turkey, with the personal rank of Minister-Counselor. He currently teaches part-time at The George Washington University. Ambassador Wilson is also the current Director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council.

Wilson was born in 1955 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received a Bachelor's degree magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and Master's degrees from Columbia University (1979) and the U.S. National War College (1995). Early in his career, he served in the State Department’s Offices of Soviet Union and Egyptian Affairs.

He served as U.S. Consul General at the American embassy in Moscow, USSR from 1980 to 1982, at the American embassy in Prague, Czechoslovakia from 1985 to 1987, again in Moscow from 1987 to 1990. He was Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and Counselor of the Department Zoellick in 1990–1992. From 1992 to 1994, Wilson worked in Washington D.C. for Secretaries of State Baker, Eagleburger and Christopher in 1992-1994 as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State. He later served as U.S. Consul General again in Melbourne, Australia from 1995 to 1997.

From 1997 to 2000, Wilson was Principal Deputy to the Ambassador-at-Large and Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union.

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