George Kent served as Ambassador to Estonia from 2023-2025, capping off a 33 year career (1992-2025). He previously was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau (EUR) from 2018-21, overseeing policy towards Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Before that, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Kyiv, Ukraine (2015-18), where he had earlier served from 2004-2007 as deputy political chief. His other overseas assignments included Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Warsaw, Poland; twice in Bangkok, Thailand. Other State Department assignments included: Senior anti-corruption coordinator in EUR; Office director for rule of law programming for Europe and Asia in the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau; Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Operations Center Watch Officer; and Thai desk officer. George holds an A.B. from Harvard in Russian History and Literature (1989), an M.A. from Johns Hopkins’ SAIS (1992), and M.S. from National Defense University’s Eisenhower School (2012). Mr. Kent speaks Ukrainian, Russian, Thai, and some Polish, German, and Italian