John Malcom Ordway is a retired foreign service officer who is currently the Chargé d'Affaires

Chargé d'affaires

In diplomacy, chargé d’affaires , often shortened to simply chargé, is the title of two classes of diplomatic agents who head a diplomatic mission, either on a temporary basis or when no more senior diplomat has been accredited.-Chargés d’affaires:Chargés d’affaires , who were...

 of the United States Embassy in Astana

United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Kazakhstan.Kazakhstan had been a constituent SSR of the Soviet Union. Upon dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan declared independence on December 16, 1991. It was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence.The United States...

, Kazakhstan since January 13, 2011.

He previously served as the Chargé d'Affaires at four United States embassies: Kathmandu, Nepal

Nepal

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(December 2009 - January 2010), Sofia, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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(August 2009 - November 2009), Vienna

Vienna

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, Austria

Austria

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(May 2009 - July 2009), and Prague

Prague

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, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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(May 2010 - August 2010).

He served as the United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan

United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan

This is a list of Ambassadors of the United States to Kazakhstan.Kazakhstan had been a constituent SSR of the Soviet Union. Upon dissolution of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan declared independence on December 16, 1991. It was the last of the Soviet republics to declare independence.The United States...

 from September 2004 - 2008 and as the United States Ambassador to Armenia

United States Ambassador to Armenia

Upon the breakup of the Soviet Union, Armenia declared its independence on August 23, 1991, having previously been the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the constituent republics of the USSR since 1936, and part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic since 1920.The...

 from November 2001 to August 2004.

Ordway graduated from Stanford University

Stanford University

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 in 1972 and the University of California

University of California

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's Hastings College of Law in 1975. He speaks Russian

Russian language

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, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, Italian

Italian language

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, Czech

Czech language

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 and Armenian

Armenian language

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External links

• U.S. Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic: Biography of John M. Ordway