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>Kristina Kvien.

The current chief of mission, as chargé d'affaires ad interim, is Kristina Kvien.

Kristina A. Kvien (born January 15, 1965) is an American diplomat who has served as the acting United States Ambassador to Ukraine since January 2020.

 

Kvien was born in Orange County, California, the daughter of John Kvien and Karen Lindquist.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree from Occidental College. After graduating from college, she worked as a market researcher for the Los Angeles Times and then pursued graduate studies at Stockholm University in Sweden. She later earned a master's degree in strategic studies from the United States Army War College.

Kvien joined the Foreign Service in 1992, and her first assignment was as a consular officer in Paris.[2] She later served as an Economics Officer at the Embassy of the United States, Manila. Subsequently, she served at the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs in Washington, D.C., focusing on European Union and OECD issues. She was then assigned as a desk officer for Slovenia.

 

From 2001 to 2005, she served at the United States Mission to the European Union in Brussels as an Economics Officer, and then was transferred to the Embassy of the United States, Moscow, working on environment and energy issues. Kvien then became Director for EU Affairs, EU Economies and Caspian Energy for Ukraine and Belarus at the United States National Security Council.

 

Kvien then accepted a post in London overseeing US-UK economic relations, covering finance and banking issues, civil aviation, terrorist financing, labor, and energy policy.[3] Kvien has also served in Thailand as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of the United States, Bangkok.[4][5]

 

Before being posted to Ukraine, Kvien served at the Embassy of the United States, Paris from 2016 to April 2019 as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Counselor for Economic Affairs.[