Michael kirby us ambassador biography

Career Foreign Service Officer State of Residence: Virginia..

Michael David Kirby

American diplomat

Michael David Kirby (born 1953) is a U.S. diplomat and a former U.S. Ambassador to Moldova and Serbia.^[2]

Education

Kirby earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and studied at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.^[3]^[4]

Career

Kirby joined the United States Foreign Service as a Consular Officer in 1979.

His various assignments included Copenhagen, Denmark, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Georgetown, Guyana.

Biography.

A career consular officer who joined the Foreign Service circa 1979, Kirby served early career assignments at the U.S. embassies in Copenhagen, Denmark; Dar es.

Career Foreign Service Officer State of Residence: Virginia.

The son of a diplomat, Ambassador Kirby was raised around the world, including Hong Kong; Benghazi, Libya; and the United States.

Michael Kirby (theater) (1931–1997), professor of drama at New York University; Michael David Kirby (born 1953), U.S. diplomat and former ambassador to Moldova.

He also served as a desk officer in the Office of Caribbean Affairs in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.

Kirby served as consul at the Consulate General in Kraków, Poland from 1988 to 1991, and as regional consular officer at the Consulate General in Frankfurt, Germany from 1996 to 1998, supervising consular operations at U.S.

embassies in the countries of the former Soviet Union except Russia.

Returning stateside, he served as director of