George Albert Krol is a United States foreign service officer

Foreign Service Officer

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 and career member of the Senior Foreign Service

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 with the rank of Minister-Counselor. As of June 2011, he is the U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan

United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan

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. He served as the Ambassador to Belarus

United States Ambassador to Belarus

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 2003–06.

Biography

Krol joined the United States Foreign Service

United States Foreign Service

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 in 1982, and is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He has held foreign assignments in Poland, India, the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine and also previously in Belarus. He most recently served as Minister-Counselor for Political Affairs at the United States Embassy in Moscow (1999–2002). He also served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'affaires

Chargé d'affaires

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 in Minsk

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, Belarus (1993–1995). His Washington assignments include Director of the Office of Russian Affairs (1997–99) and Special Assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for the New Independent States

Commonwealth of Independent States

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 (1995–97). Ambassador Krol has received several State Department

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 Superior and Meritorious Honor awards. He speaks Russian and Polish.

Krol's home state is New Jersey

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. He is the youngest of three sons of Anthony J. Krol and his wife of Manchester Township, New Jersey

Manchester Township, New Jersey

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. He attended St. Peter's Preparatory School

St. Peter's Preparatory School

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 in Jersey City, and received a Bachelor's degree in History, magna cum laude, from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University, England.

Ambassador Krol is unmarried.