Join Harvard's Davis Center for a talk with former U.S. Ambassador George A. Krol. 

Ambassador Krol recently retired from the U.S. Foreign Service, concluding a 36-year diplomatic career with his final assignment as U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan. He has spent the last 30 years dealing with and serving in states that emerged from the former Soviet Union such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Krol also held ambassadorships to Uzbekistan and Belarus, and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for Central Asia (2008-2010). Earlier in his career, Krol served as Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and Director of the Office of Russian Affairs at the State Department. Krol has received numerous State Department awards, including the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award as well as high state decorations from the governments of Lithuania, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. 

Commentator: 

Thomas W. Simons, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan (retired); visiting scholar, Davis Center