George A. Krol

George Krol
United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan
Incumbent
Assumed office March 18, 2015
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	John Ordway
United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan
In office July 5, 2011 – December 8, 2014
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Richard Norland
Succeeded by	Pamela Spratlen
United States Ambassador to Belarus
In office October 22, 2003 – July 24, 2006
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Michael Kozak
Succeeded by	Karen Stewart
Personal details
Born	1956 (age 59–60) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Harvard University Mansfield College, Oxford

George Albert Krol (born 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a United States foreign service officer and career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. Krol was sworn in on January 8, 2015 as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Personal life

Krol's home state is New Jersey. He is the youngest of three sons of Anthony J. Krol of Manchester Township, New Jersey.^[1]

He attended St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, New Jersey, and received a bachelor's degree in history, Magna Cum laude, from Harvard University, and bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, England.

Krol is married to Melissa Welch.^[2]

Career

Krol joined the United States Foreign Service in 1982, and is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He held foreign assignments in Poland, India, the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine and in Belarus. He served as Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs at the United States Embassy in Moscow (1999–2002) and He served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires in Minsk, Belarus (1993–1995). His Washington assignments include Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, Director of the Office of Russian Affairs (1997–1999) and Special Assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for the New Independent States (1995–1997). Krol taught at the National War College and was a member of the State Department’s Senior Seminar. He received several State Department Superior and Meritorious Honor awards. He speaks Russian and Polish.

He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan 2011-2014 and as the Ambassador to Belarus 2003–2006.

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