Alejandro Daniel Wolff , an American

United States

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 diplomat, is the US Ambassador to Chile. He was the acting U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
until Zalmay Khalilzad

Zalmay Khalilzad

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 was appointed as permanent representative. He was made the representative after the resignation of John Bolton

John R. Bolton

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 on December 9, 2006. Previously he had been the Deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations

United Nations

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Biography

He graduated from UCLA in 1978. Wolff joined the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in 1979. His assignments in Washington include tours on the Policy Planning Staff (1981–1982); in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs (1988–1989); in the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1989–1991); as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department (1996–1998); and as the Executive Assistant to Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell (1998–2001).

Wolff has served in Algeria

Algeria

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, Morocco

Morocco

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, Chile

Chile

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, Cyprus

Cyprus

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, the U.S. Mission to the European Union

European Union

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 in Brussels and France

France

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. His most recent assignment was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2005–2010).

Wolff is the recipient of the Department of State's Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards. He is married, with two children, and speaks French

French language

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 and Spanish

Spanish language

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