Marie Yovanovitch is a U.S. Embassy official. She is a high-ranking official in America and has held many high-level positions in the State Department, including that of senior counselor to the Under Secretary of State for poliPoliticalairs. Marie Yovanovitch was born to Mikhail and Nadia Yovanovitch, who were Jews who escaped the Soviet Union and the Nazis. Nadia and Mikhaill Yovanovitch were both natives of Ukraine.
Age
Marie Yovanovitch was born on November 11, 1958, in Montreal, Quebec. Marie. As of November 2023, she was 65 years old.
Early Life and Education
Marie Yovanovitch’s family escaped the Soviet Union before she was born. Yovanovitch’s family fled the Soviet Union, first to Canada and later to Connecticut, where she grew up. Yovanovitch spent her first three years of life in Canada before relocating to the United States. Both of her parents were language instructors, and she and they moved to Connecticut, where she attended The Kent School.
Marie Yovanovitch graduated from Connecticut’s Kent School in 1976. She went on to get a BA in History and Russian studies from Princeton University after finishing high school.
Career and Achievements
In 1986, she entered the Foreign Service of the United States.
She also held the position of deputy director of the U.S. Department of State’s Russian Desk. She oversaw about 500 American and Armenian employees at the U.S. embassy in Armenia.
During her career in the diplomatic service, Yovanovitch visited every continent. She has served as the ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, and the ambassador to Armenia, and has also worked as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
From August 2016 to May 2019, Marie Yovanovitch was the United States Ambassador to Ukraine. Her previous positions include that of US Ambassador to Armenia and Kyrgyzstan.
Children
Marie Yovanovitch has never married or had children.
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