Kyle Randolph Scott
United States Ambassador to Serbia
In office
February 5, 2016 – September 26, 2019
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
DeputyKurt Donnelly
Preceded byMichael David Kirby
Succeeded byAnthony F. Godfrey
Personal details
Born1957 (age 66–67)
United States
Alma materArizona State University
Thunderbird School of Global Management

Kyle Randolph Scott (born 1957)[1] is a U.S. diplomat in the Senior Foreign Service and a former U.S. Ambassador to Serbia.[2][3]

Education

Scott attended Arizona State University, earning a Bachelor of Arts in German language and literature while also minoring in Russian.[4] He then went on to the Thunderbird School of Global Management, studying international business and finance.[4]

Career

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.[4]

Afterwards, from 2011 to 2014, Scott served as the consul general in Milan, Italy. In 2014, he was made the Department of State's senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund.[5]

President Barack Obama nominated Scott to be U.S. Ambassador to Serbia on September 15, 2015.[6] Scott testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on December 2, 2015.[7] Scott was confirmed, and presented his credentials to the government of Serbia on February 5, 2016.[2]

Personal life

Scott is married and has two sons. In addition to English, he has learned Russian, German, Italian, Serbian, Hungarian, French, and Hebrew.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Kyle R. Scott (1957–)
  2. 1 2 "Ambassador Kyle Randolph Scott". U.S. Department of State. February 5, 2016. Archived from the original on September 10, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Meeting between Minister Dacic and US Ambassador Kyle Scott". Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. June 13, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "U.S. Ambassador to Serbia: Who Is Kyle Scott?". AllGov. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Report for the Committee on Foreign Relations". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  6. ↑ "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts". whitehouse.gov. September 15, 2015. Retrieved September 10, 2016 – via National Archives.
  7. ↑ "Testimony of Mr. Kyle Scott, Ambassadorial Nominee to the Republic of Serbia" (PDF). United States Senate. December 2, 2015. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
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