Roman Popadiuk

Roman Popadiuk served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H.W. Bush, from 1992 to 1993.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Since 1999, he has served as the Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.^[1][2][4]

Biography

Roman Popadiuk was born in Austria on May 30, 1950.^[6][3][5] He received a B.A. from Hunter College in 1973, and a PhD from CUNY Graduate Center in 1981.^{[1][2][6][3][4][5]} He then taught Political Science at Brooklyn College in New York City.^[1][2][6][3]

He joined the United States Foreign Service in 1981.^{[1][2][6][3][4][5]} From 1982 to 1984, he worked as a diplomat in Mexico City.^[1][2][6][3] From 1984 to 1986, he worked in the Department of State and in the National Security Council.^{[1][2][6][3][5]}

From 1986 to 1989, he served as Assistant Press Secretary, then Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Assistant under Ronald Reagan.^[1][6][3] He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs under George H.W. Bush, from 1989 to 1992.^[1][3][4][5]

He served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H.W. Bush from 1992 to 1993.^[5] From 1993 to 1995, he taught at the Foreign Service Institute.^[1][2] From 1995 to 1998, he served as an administrator at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C..^[1][2] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the Board of Advisors of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.^[1]

He has published three books and articles in The Ukrainian Quarterly, The Foreign Service Journal, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Presidential Studies Quarterly.^[1][2]

He is married to Judith Ann Fedkiw, and they have four children, Gregory, Matthew, Catherine and Mary.^{[7][1][2][3][4][5]}

Bibliography

• American-Ukrainian Nuclear Relations
• The President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board: Learning Lessons from Its Past to Shape Its Future (2008, co-author)
• The Leadership of George Bush: An Insider’s View of the 41st President (2009)

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