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of the Window on America Center
10.03.2009
Ambassador William B. Taylor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. Ambassador
to Ukraine on May 26, 2006.
Until February 2006 he was the U.S. government's
representative to the Quartet's effort to facilitate the Israeli disengagement
from Gaza and parts of the West Bank, led by Special Envoy James Wolfensohn in
Jerusalem. The Quartet Special Envoy was responsible for the economic aspects of
this disengagement.
Prior to this assignment, he served in Baghdad as
Director, Iraq Reconstruction Management Office (2004-2005), in Kabul as
coordinator of USG and international assistance to Afghanistan (2002-2003) and
in Washington with the rank of ambassador as coordinator of USG assistance to
the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1992-2002).
He previously served in Brussels as deputy defense
advisor at the U.S. Mission to NATO, in Washington on the staff of Senator Bill
Bradley, at the National Defense University and in the U.S. Department of
Energy.
As an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, he served in
Vietnam and Germany.
He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West
Point and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
He is married with two children.
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