Kent Logsdon
Kent D. Logsdon is a US government official and diplomat . Since September 30, 2019, he has served as Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment at the United States Department of State . From 20 January to 8 May 2018, he served as charge d'affaires , the Embassy of the United States in Germany .
Life
Logsdon is from Sewickley, Allegheny County , Pennsylvania . Until 1979 he attended Quaker Valley High School there . He earned a master's degree in international relations from the University of Virginia and a bachelor's degree in government from the University of Notre Dame . In addition to his mother tongue, Logsdon speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Thai and German. He is married to the diplomat Michelle Rabayda Logsdon. The couple have a daughter and a son.
Before his Berlin embassy post, he embarked on a career as a top civil servant that had taken him to various positions at the US State Department in Washington, DC, as well as to Georgia, Ukraine, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Germany.
Web links
- Kent D. Logsdon , biography on de.usembassy.gov portal
- Kent D. Logsdon , biography in the state.gov portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quaker Valley High School Class Of 1979 , website on classcreator.com , accessed August 17, 2020
- ↑ QV Alumni Shares Experience with Students . In: 2015 Report to the Quaker Valley Community . Quaker Valley School District, Leetsdale / PA 2015, p. 18 ( online )
- ↑ "I'm surprised how well informed the Germans are" . Interview with Kent Logsdon from April 20, 2018 in the tagesspiegel.de portal , accessed on August 17, 2020
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Logsdon, Kent |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Logsdon, Kent D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American government official and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1979 |