Geoffrey R. Pyatt (born 1963) is the United States Ambassador to Greece. Pyatt's U.S. State Department career landed him posts in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
Early life and education
Pyatt was born 1963 in La Jolla, an affluent neighborhood of San Diego, California.[1]
He received his bachelor’s degree in political studies in 1985 at the
University of California, Irvine, and a master's degree in international
relations at Yale University in 1987
Career
Pyatt started his diplomatic career in
Honduras, from 1990 until 1992 he worked as vice-consul and economic
officer in Tegucigalpa. The highest position (before his current post)
was deputy chief of diplomatic mission in India in 2006 and 2007. After
that he worked as deputy chief of U.S. mission to International Atomic
Energy Agency and other international organizations in Vienna. Prior to
his current position Pyatt served as Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs from May 2010
until July 2013.
Pyatt took the Oath of Office of
United States Ambassador to Ukraine on July 30, 2013 in the Harry S
Truman Building of the US State Department in Washington, D.C. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych accepted Pyatt's credentials on August 15, 2013. After his appointment, Pyatt started actively studying the Ukrainian language.
On October 15, 2013 Pyatt attended an international conference on
fighting anti-Semitism in Kiev, but could not address the audience at
the event due to the United States federal government shutdown of 2013.
Pyatt became part of a diplomatic
scandal in January 2014, when his conversation with the Assistant
Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs at the United
States Department of State, Victoria Nuland, was apparently intercepted
and uploaded to YouTube.
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| Assistant Secretary Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt greet Ukrainian President-elect Petrooroshenko before he met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Warsaw, Poland, on June 4, 2014 |
Pyatt supported the 2014 Ukrainian revolution against Ukraine's President Victor Yanukovych.
Pyatt characterised pro-Russian separatist rebels in Donetsk and Luhansk as "terrorists".
On September 25, 2015, during his speech at Odesa Financial Forum, Pyatt criticized Ukrainian Prosecutor's office.
On May 6, 2016 Geoffrey Pyatt was appointed by the U.S. Department of State as United States Ambassador to Greece.
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