Bush announces his nominee for ambassador to Ukraine (05/04/03)

Bush announces his nominee for ambassador to Ukraine

U.S. Embassy in Ukraine

KYIV - President George W. Bush has announced his intention to nominate John Edward Herbst, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, to be the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. The U.S. Senate must confirm the nomination.

Mr. Herbst, who has the rank of minister-counselor, currently serves as the U.S. ambassador to Uzbekistan. He assumed that post in October 2000. Prior to becoming Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Mr. Herbst served as the U.S. consul general in Jerusalem. Previously, he served as the principal deputy to the ambassador-at-large for the newly independent states, the director of the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs and as the director of regional affairs in the Near East Bureau of the State Department. Mr. Herbst has also worked overseas as political counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and at the embassies in Moscow and Saudi Arabia. He joined the Foreign Service in 1979.

Mr. Herbst was born on August 12, 1952, in Rockville Center, N.Y. He received a bachelor of science in foreign service from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 1974, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and a master of arts in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1978. He also attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center. He is fluent in Russian and has a working knowledge of Arabic.

Carlos Pascual, U.S. ambassador to Ukraine since October 2000, is scheduled to return to Washington, this summer to be the coordinator of U.S. assistance to Europe and Eurasia.

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