Volker Kurt

Date of Birth: 27.12.1964

Kurt Volker - American diplomat. Permanent Representative of the USA to NATO (2008-2009). Head of the McCain Institute in Arizona (2011-2019). Special Representative of the US State Department for Ukraine (2017-2019).

Place of Birth. Education. Kurt Volker was born on December 27, 1964. In 1984, he earned a Bachelor's degree in international relations from Temple University. In 1986, he completed his studies at George Washington University.

Career. He began his career as an analyst at the CIA in 1986.

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In 1988, he joined the US Department of State and served in the diplomatic service until 1998. During his time at the State Department, he was the lawyer for John McCain from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he became the first secretary of the US mission to NATO, and in 1999, deputy director in the private office of NATO Secretary General George Robertson, where he served until 2001.

He then became the acting director for European and Eurasian affairs at the National Security Council, where he led the preparations for the NATO summit in Istanbul in 2004 and the Prague summit in 2002. In July 2005, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs and was appointed by President George W. Bush as the permanent US representative to NATO in July 2008.

In 2011, he joined the BGR Group, a lobbying firm and investment bank in Washington, where he heads the international corporate group.

Since 2011, he has been leading the McCain Institute in Arizona.

On July 7, 2017, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson appointed Kurt Volker as the Special Envoy for Ukraine. He will coordinate the efforts of the US State Department to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. As the Special Envoy of the State Department, Volker will conduct negotiations for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Donbass and the implementation of the Minsk agreements with the Kremlin leadership, including with Russia's Deputy Chief Vladislav Surkov and contacts with the participants of the Normandy format - France and Germany. Volker has publicly expressed his dismissal of the Minsk agreements and the Putin regime.

At the end of September 2019, Kurt Volker resigned from his position as Special Envoy of the US State Department for Ukraine.

In October 2019, Kurt Volker resigned from his post as Director of the McCain Institute in Arizona.

Since September 1, 2020, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the BGS Rail Company.

Quotes. 'I think Putin wants to conquer the territory between Eastern Ukraine and Crimea, including Mariupol. He could annex Transnistria, which is already occupied by Russia' (in an interview with Voice of America on December 30, 2014).

'The agreement signed in Minsk in February should not be referred to as peace agreements but rather as a partition agreement for Ukraine that was imposed on Kyiv by Germany, Russia, and France. The Minsk agreements are not a solution but a problem as they actually lend legitimacy to the Russian invasion of Ukraine' (in an interview with Voice of America on July 24, 2015).

'Regarding Crimea, he (Trump, - Addition.) will certainly turn a blind eye. With respect to the integrity of the rest of Ukraine, it will be difficult to give Putin any leeway' (in an interview with Ouest France on November 5, 2016).

Family. Volker is married. His wife, Karen Davis Volker, was an employee of the US Department of State. They have two daughters.

13.12.2023