John f tefft biography

John F. Tefft

United States Ambassador to Ukraine
In office: November 20, 2009[1] – August 3, 2013[1]
President: Barack Obama
Preceded by: William B. Taylor, Jr.
Succeeded by: Geoffrey R. Pyatt

United States Ambassador to Georgia
In office: August 23, 2005 – 2009
President: George W. Bush
Preceded by: Richard Monroe Miles
Succeeded by: John R. Bass

United States Ambassador to Lithuania
In office: June 14, 2000 – May 10, 2003
President: George W. Bush
Preceded by: Keith C. Smith
Succeeded by: Stephen D. Mull

Personal details

Born: 1949 (age 64–65), Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Spouse: Mariella Cellitti Tefft
Children: Christine, Cathleen
Alma mater: Georgetown University: M.A.History (1978), Marquette University: B.A.(1971)

Profession

Career FSO

John F. Tefft (born 1949) is a career U.S. Foreign Service Officer since 1972. He has served as the United States' ambassador to Ukraine,[1] Georgia, and Lithuania, as well as chargé d'affaires of the E

Nikolay Koposov

Nikolay Koposov is a Distinguished Professor of the Practice in the School of History and Sociology and the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, he worked at Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, Helsinki University (Finland), and École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France). In 1998-2009, he was Founding Dean of Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, a joint venture of Saint-Petersburg State University (Russia) and Bard College (New York). He specializes in modern European intellectual history, modern France, post-Soviet Russia, historiography, historical memory, and comparative politics of the past. He has authored six books including Memory Laws, Memory Wars: The Politics of the Past in Europe and Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and De l’imagination historique (Éditions de l’ÉHÉSS, 2009), and edited four collective volumes and translations. His works have been published in English, French, German, It

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