Alina Romanowski
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Alina Romanowski | |
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| United States Ambassador to Kuwait | |
| Assumed office February 11, 2020 | |
| President | Donald Trump Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Lawrence R. Silverman |
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| Born | September 26, 1955 (aged 66) |
| Education | University of Chicago (B.A., M.A.) |
Alina L. Romanowski (born September 26, 1955) is an American career diplomat. In 2019, she was confirmed by the Senate to serve as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait.[1]
Early life and education[]
Romanowski is from Illinois. Both her parents immigrated to the U.S., her father from Poland and her mother from Canada.[2] She earned a master's degree in international relations as well as a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago. She also attended Tel Aviv University in Israel. She speaks French, Arabic and Hebrew.[3]
Career[]
While she was a student at the University of Chicago, Romanowski interviewed on campus with the CIA, and began a career in the U.S. government.[4]
Romanowski spent four decades in U.S. public service roles, focused in large part in Near East and South Asia. She worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as an intelligence analyst on the Near East and South Asia region for ten years. She served as the Director of the NESA Office and country director for Israel. Romanowski served as founding Director of the Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
In 2003, she joined the State Department to establish the Middle East Partnership Initiative Office and serve as its first Director. She also served in two Deputy Assistant Secretary positions in the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairsand as acting Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
From 2011 to 2015 at Romanowski served at USAID as Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Middle East Bureau. In March 2015 she became the Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia in the State Department's Bureau for European and Eurasian Affairs, overseeing all U.S. federal assistance to thirty countries in Europe and Eurasia, including Central Asia.
Romanowski became Principal Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism in 2017, after serving in an acting role.[5]
Romanowski was confirmed as Ambassador to Kuwait by a voice vote of the Senate on December 19, 2019,[6] and presented her credentials to Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at Bayan Palace in Kuwait City on February 11, 2020.[7]
See also[]
- List of ambassadors of the United States
- United States Ambassadors appointed by Donald Trump
References[]
- ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-administration-appointee-tracker/database
- ^ "U.S. Senate, Foreign Relations Committee, Oct 31, 2019" (PDF).
- ^ "Romanowski, Alina L." U.S. Department of State.
- ^ "When in doubt, just take the risk". Federal News Network. February 21, 2018.
- ^ https://www.state.gov/biographies/alina-l-romanowski
- ^ "PN1038 — Alina L. Romanowski — Department of State". U.S. Congress. December 19, 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
- ^ "Kuwait Amir's audiences". Kuwaiti News Agency (KUNA). Retrieved 2020-02-16.
- Living people
- University of Chicago alumni
- United States Department of State officials
- United States Foreign Service personnel
- 21st-century American diplomats
- Trump administration personnel
- American women ambassadors
- Ambassadors of the United States to Kuwait
- 1955 births
- 21st-century American women