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A career foreign service officer, Reeker served as Assistant Information Officer in Budapest, Hungary from 1993 to 1996 and as the Public Affairs Officer in [[Skopje]], Macedonia from 1997 to 1999. He was Director of Press Relations at the State Department from 1999 to 2000. Reeker was Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary in the [[Bureau of Public Affairs]] from 2000-2003. He was recipient of the [[Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy]] in 2003, and traveled domestically and internationally as the Spokesman at Large for the State Department, giving talks and interviews on U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy from 2003 to 2004. He was spokesman for Ambassador Christopher R. Hill and for the Rambouillet Process (Kosovo peace talks).From June 2007 until June 2008, Reeker served at the U.S. Embassy in [[Iraq]] as the Counselor to the Ambassador for Public Affairs. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission in [[Budapest, Hungary]] from 2004 to 2007 and arrived in Baghdad June 7, 2007 to serve as the Counselor to the Ambassador for Public Affairs.<ref> The White House, George W Bush archives, "Phillip T Reeker," accessed Oct 26, 2019 [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/reeker-bio.html]</ref> |
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Reeker served as U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia from 2008 to 2011. <ref> U.S. Department of State, "Philip T. Reeker" bio accessed Oct 26, 2019 [https://www.state.gov/biographies/philip-t-reeker/]</ref> |
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A career foreign service officer, Reeker previously served as Director of Press Relations at the State Department from 1999 to 2000; Assistant Information Officer in Budapest, Hungary from 1993 to 1996; and as the Public Affairs Officer in [[Skopje]], Macedonia from 1997 to 1999. He was spokesman for Ambassador [[Christopher R. Hill]] and for the [[Rambouillet Agreement]] (Kosovo peace talks). |
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Revision as of 21:04, 26 October 2019
Philip Reeker | |
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| Acting Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs | |
| Assumed office March 18, 2019 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | A. Wess Mitchell |
| 5th United States Ambassador to Macedonia | |
| In office September 29, 2008 – July 15, 2011 | |
| President | George W. Bush Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Gillian Milovanovic |
| Succeeded by | Paul D. Wohlers |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 19, 1965 Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University (BA) Thunderbird School of Global Management (MBA) |
Philip Thomas Reeker (born January 19, 1965) is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer with the Department of State who currently serves as Acting Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. He previously served at U.S. European Command (EUCOM) in Stuttgart, Germany and POLAD from 2017 to May 31, 2019. [1]Reeker was also U.S. Consul General in Milan, Italy from September 5, 2014[2], Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2011 through 2013[3], and as the ambassador to Macedonia from 2008 to 2011.
Reeker is scheduled to testify before several House Committees of US Congress in the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump and the Trump-Ukraine scandal.[4] Initially scheduled for October 23, 2019, Reeker's appearance was deferred as Reekers lawyers expect the State Department to bar him from testifying, which may be followed by a "friendly subpoena".[5] According to documents received by the State Department's inspector general, George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state under Reeker, had dismissed allegations against then Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, as baseless and took his concerns to Reeker.[6]
Early Life, Education, and Family
Born in Pennsylvania, Reeker grew up in multiple parts of the United States as well as in Australia. He received a BA from Yale University in 1986, and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in 1991. He is married to Solveig Johnson Reeker, who also is a member of the Foreign Service.
Career
A career foreign service officer, Reeker served as Assistant Information Officer in Budapest, Hungary from 1993 to 1996 and as the Public Affairs Officer in Skopje, Macedonia from 1997 to 1999. He was Director of Press Relations at the State Department from 1999 to 2000. Reeker was Deputy Spokesman and Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Public Affairs from 2000-2003. He was recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Public Diplomacy in 2003, and traveled domestically and internationally as the Spokesman at Large for the State Department, giving talks and interviews on U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy from 2003 to 2004. He was spokesman for Ambassador Christopher R. Hill and for the Rambouillet Process (Kosovo peace talks).From June 2007 until June 2008, Reeker served at the U.S. Embassy in Iraq as the Counselor to the Ambassador for Public Affairs. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Budapest, Hungary from 2004 to 2007 and arrived in Baghdad June 7, 2007 to serve as the Counselor to the Ambassador for Public Affairs.[7]
Reeker served as U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia from 2008 to 2011. [8]
References
- ^ "Philip T. Reeker". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-20. Retrieved 2015-09-09.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ United States Department of State
- ^ Andrews, Andrew Duehren and Natalie. "More Ukraine Witnesses Set to Testify in Impeachment Probe This Week". WSJ. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "Trump Wants Barr to Investigate Ukraine: Impeachment Update". news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ "Democrats call five more Trump officials to testify in impeachment probe". NBC News. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- ^ The White House, George W Bush archives, "Phillip T Reeker," accessed Oct 26, 2019 [1]
- ^ U.S. Department of State, "Philip T. Reeker" bio accessed Oct 26, 2019 [2]
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