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U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Robert Koenig<\/h2>\n

\"\"Ambassador Robert Koenig has extensive prior experience in the Aegean Sea region to be the next U.S. ambassador to the ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus. John M. Koenig has served previously in Cyprus. Born in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, John Koenig grew up in the Puget Sound area. He earned a B.A. in Anthropology at the University of Washington circa 1980 and an M.A. in Foreign Relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.<\/p>\n

Koenig served his first tour in Cyprus as political counselor at the embassy in Nicosia from 1994 to 1997, followed by two postings to Greece, first as political-military officer\/deputy political counselor at the embassy in Athens from 1997 to 2000, and then as principal officer at the American Consulate in Thessaloniki from 2000 to 2003, where he organized the largest ever U.S. public affairs event held in Greece to that time, \u201cHonored Nation \u2013 USA,\u201d at the Thessaloniki International Fair.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering<\/h2>\n
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\"\"\u00a0Ambassador Thomas Pickering served more than four decades as a U.S. diplomat. He last served as under secretary of state for political affairs, the third highest post in the U.S. State Department. Pickering also served as ambassador to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, and Jordan, and holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Professor Robert J. Pekkanen<\/h2>\n

\"\"Professor Pekkanen is Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Adjunct Professor of Political Science, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University in 2002. His research interests lie in electoral systems, political parties and civil society. He has published articles in political science journals such as\u00a0The American Political Science Review, The British Journal of Political Science,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Comparative Political Studies<\/em>, as well Asian studies journals includingThe Journal of Asian Studies<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Journal of Japanese Studies<\/em>. He has published seven books in English on American nonprofit advocacy, Japanese civil society, and Japanese elections and political parties, and there are translations or Japanese versions of three of his books. His first book,\u00a0Japan\u2019s Dual Civil Society: Members without Advocates<\/em>\u00a0(Stanford: 2006) won the Masayoshi Ohira Prize in 2008 and also an award from the Japanese Nonprofit Research Association (JANPORA) in 2007.\u00a0\u00a0The Japan Times<\/em>\u00a0also featured it as one of the \u201cBest Asia Books\u201d of 2006. \u00a0A Japanese translation appeared in 2008.\u00a0Another book,\u00a0The Rise and Fall of Japan\u2019s LDP: Political Party Organizations as Historical Institutions,<\/em>\u00a0(Cornell: 2010; co-authored with Ellis S. Krauss), has earned praise in a wide range of reviews. Pekkanen has co-edited two books on Japanese elections, most recently Japan Decides 2014 <\/i>about the December 2014 Japanese general election.\u00a0Pekkanen\u2019s research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation,\u00a0Social Science Research Council, and the National Science Foundation, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Robert Koenig Ambassador Robert Koenig has extensive prior experience in the Aegean Sea region to be the next U.S. ambassador to the ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus. John M. Koenig has served previously in Cyprus. Born in 1958 in Tacoma, Washington, John Koenig grew up in the Puget Sound area.<\/p>\n

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