Alejandro Daniel Wolff

Alejandro Daniel Wolff
United States Ambassador to Chile
In office September 2010 – December 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Paul Simons
Succeeded by	Michael A. Hammer (Designate)
Personal details
Children	2
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles

Alejandro Daniel Wolff is an American diplomat who served as the US Ambassador to Chile from 2010 to 2013. He was the acting U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations ^[1][2] until Zalmay Khalilzad was appointed as permanent representative. He was made the representative after the resignation of John Bolton on December 9, 2006. Previously he had been the Deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations.

He graduated from UCLA in 1978. Wolff joined the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in 1979. His assignments in Washington include tours on the Policy Planning Staff (1981–1982); in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs (1988–1989); in the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1989–1991); as Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department (1996–1998); and as the Executive Assistant to Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell (1998–2001).

Wolff has served in Algeria, Morocco, Chile, Cyprus, the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels and France. His most recent assignment was Ambassador and Deputy Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2005–2010).

Wolff is the recipient of the Department of State's Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards. He is married, with two children, and speaks French and Spanish.

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Ambassadors of the United States to Chile Heman Allen Samuel Larned John Hamm John S. Pendleton William Crump Seth Barton Balie Peyton David A. Starkweather John Bigler Thomas H. Nelson Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Joseph Pomeroy Root Cornelius A. Logan Thomas A. Osborn Hugh Judson Kilpatrick Cornelius A. Logan William R. Roberts Patrick Egan James D. Porter Edward H. Strobel Henry L. Wilson John Hicks Thomas Cleland Dawson Henry Prather Fletcher Joseph H. Shea William Miller Collier William Smith Culbertson Hal H. Sevier Hoffman Philip Norman Armour Claude G. Bowers Willard L. Beaulac Cecil B. Lyon Walter Howe Robert F. Woodward Charles W. Cole Ralph A. Dungan Edward M. Korry Nathaniel Davis David H. Popper George W. Landau James D. Theberge Harry George Barnes, Jr. Charles A. Gillespie, Jr. Curtis Warren Kamman Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón John O'Leary William R. Brownfield Craig A. Kelly Paul E. Simons Alejandro Daniel Wolff Michael A. Hammer