Episode 925
William B. Taylor Jr.
Thu, 2019-Nov-14 00:53 UTC
Length - 2:08
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William Brockenbrough Taylor Jr. (born September 14, 1947) is an American diplomat, government official and former soldier.
Taylor is a former captain and company commander in the United States Army; he served in the Vietnam War and earned a Bronze Star. He proceeded to work in the United States Department of Energy and then the Department of Defense. From 1992 to 2002, Taylor carried out diplomatic work for the United States with firstly Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, secondly Afghanistan, thirdly Iraq, and fourthly the Quartet on the Middle East. From 2006 to 2009, Taylor served as the United States ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009 under the George W. Bush administration and the Barack Obama administration. He continued diplomatic work in the Middle East from 2011 to 2013.
Since June 2019, following the ousting of U. S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, Taylor was appointed to the role of chargé d'affaires for Ukraine under the Trump administration.
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