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| Affiliation | Nonpartisan |
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| Name | Thomas Bolling Robertson |
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, Virginia , United States |
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| Website | None |
| Born |
00, 1950
(74 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | Thomas B. Robertson is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Counselor. President Bush nominated Mr. Robertson as U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia on February 6, 2004. The U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination on May 6, 2004, and he was sworn-in by Secretary Powell as Ambassador on September 16, 2004.
Ambassador Robertson began his career in the Foreign Service in 1981, serving overseas in Moscow from 1982-84 as aide to the Ambassador, and as Political Officer in Bonn, Germany from 1984-86. From 1986-89, he was Deputy Director for Exchanges in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs at State.
In 1990, Ambassador Robertson moved to Budapest, Hungary, where he was Chief of the Political Section. He worked in the Office of the Special Coordinator for Counterterrorism 1993-94, as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian Affairs in 1994, and as European Specialist in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs from 1994-95. Ambassador Robertson was the Law Enforcement Counselor at the American Embassy in Moscow from 1995-1997.
In April 1998, he returned to the Embassy in Budapest as the Deputy Chief of Mission, where he served until March 2001. From March until August 2001, he served in Hungary as the U.S. Charge d'Affaires a.i.
Ambassador Robertson worked at the National Security Council as Director for Russian Affairs beginning in September 2001. In 2002, he returned to the Department of State to serve as a Career Development Officer in the Senior Level Division of the Bureau of Human Resources.
Before entering the Foreign Service, Ambassador Robertson was a guide and then an Exhibit Manager with the U.S. Information Agency, working on cultural exhibits in the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania, and Zaire from 1975-81. He has a bachelor degree from Princeton University, a masters from Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs, and has studied in Germany, the Soviet Union, and Italy. From 1997-98, he studied at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. He speaks Russian, German, Hungarian, and some Slovene, French, and Italian.
He is married and has two college-aged children.
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