John E. Herbst | |
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United States Ambassador to Ukraine | |
In office July 1, 2003 – May 26, 2006 |
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President | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Carlos Pascual |
Succeeded by | William B. Taylor, Jr. |
United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan | |
In office November 1, 2000 – July 12, 2003 |
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President |
Bill Clinton George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Joseph A. Presel |
Succeeded by | Jon Purnell |
Personal details | |
Born |
Rockville Center, New York |
August 12, 1952
Spouse(s) | Nadezda Christoff Herbst |
Profession | Career FSO |
John Edward Herbst (born 12 August 1952 in Rockville Center, New York) is a retired American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2003 and United States Ambassador to Ukraine from September 2003 to May 2006. Herbst is married to Nadezda Christoff Herbst and has five children.
Herbst received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1974 and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University (Medford, MA) in 1978. He also attended the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy.
Herbst joined the United States Foreign Service in 1979. He has worked as a political counselor at the U.S. embassies in Tel Aviv, Israel, Moscow, Russia, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has also worked as the Director of Regional Affairs in the Near East Bureau of the United States State Department, as Director of the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs, as Principal Deputy to the Ambassador-at-large for the Newly Independent States, and as U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem. He was appointed Ambassador to Uzbekistan in 2000, and to Ukraine in 2003. In 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appointed Ambassador Herbst as Coordinator for the Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization. He assumed the new position in the summer of that year.