James D. Melville Jr.

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James D. Melville Jr. (2015)
James D. Melville Jr. as Chargé d'affaires in Berlin, with Ambassador-designate John B. Emerson (2013)

James Desmond Melville Junior , also Jim Melville (* 1957 ) is an American diplomat. From 2015 to mid-2018 he was the United States Ambassador to Estonia .

Life

James D. Melville is from Bradley Beach, Monmouth County , New Jersey . He studied at Boston University , where he received his bachelor's degree in history in 1979 . He then studied law at Rutgers University . After graduating as a JD in 1982 , he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey and New York .

He has served in the United States diplomatic service since 1986. His first position was from 1986 to 1988 at the Embassy of the United States in the GDR . He worked in various departments of the State Department in Washington and on foreign assignments in the Seychelles, in Saint Petersburg , in the United States Mission to NATO and in France.

From 2005 to 2008 he was envoy at the US Embassy in Moscow and from 2008 to 2010 in London . In both embassies he also acted as a charge d'affaires . Between 2010 and 2012 he headed the US Department of State for Europe, Eurasia and international organizations.

From 2012 to 2015 he was Deputy Head of the United States Embassy in Berlin .

President Barack Obama nominated him as ambassador to Estonia on May 7, 2015, and confirmed by the US Senate on August 5, 2015 . He was sworn in on September 18. When he arrived in Tallinn , he presented the Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves with his credentials on December 8, 2015.

On June 29, 2018, he announced his resignation, effective July 29, 2018, out of anger and frustration over President Donald Trump's European policy .

In addition to English , Melville also speaks Russian , German and French . He is married and has two sons.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Ambassador to Estonia: Who Is Jim Melville? , accessed June 29, 2018
  2. ^ US Ambassador to Estonia Resigns in Disgust After Trump Anti-Europe Rants , Foreign Policy, June 29, 2018, accessed June 29, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Melville, James D., Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Melville, James Desmond; Melville, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1957