George P. Kent
US Ambassador to Estonia
US Ambassador to Estonia George P. Kent presented his credentials to the President of Estonia on February 21, 2023. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counsellor, he most recently served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau at the US Department of State. He has also been the Deputy Chief of Mission in Kyiv, Ukraine, the Senior Anti-Corruption Coordinator in the State Department’s European Bureau, and the Director for Europe and Asia in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1992, he has served in US diplomatic missions in Uzbekistan; Poland; Thailand (twice), and Ukraine (twice). Ambassador Kent holds a BA from Harvard in Russian History and Literature, an MA from Johns Hopkins’ SAIS, and an MSc from the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School. He speaks Ukrainian, Russian, and Thai, and some Estonian, Polish, German, and Italian.
Updated: September 7, 2023