Adrian A. Basora

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Adrian A. Basora
28th
United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic
In office
January 1, 1993 – July 15, 1995
PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Preceded byNew creation
Succeeded byJenonne R. Walker
Personal details
Born (1938-07-18) July 18, 1938 (age 85)
Institut d'études politiques (CEP
)

Adrian Anthony Basora (born July 18, 1938) is an American

United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic. He is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute researching democratization in the post-Communist states of Europe and Central Asia, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
.

Basora graduated with an

Institut d'études politiques in 1962, and later earned an MPA at Princeton University.[1]

Diplomatic career

Basora was a career diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. He spent his early career doing political and economic work in Peru and Paraguay, and press and cultural work in Romania. He served as Deputy Treasury Representative and then U.S. Commercial Attaché to France 1976–1980, where he engaged the French on various financial and economic issues, and counseled and advocated for U.S. firms. He was appointed Director of Development Finance in 1980, where he represented the State Department in various multilateral financial institutions. He returned to Paris in 1983 as U.S. Political Counselor. In 1986 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. While in that role he served as Deputy Negotiator in U.S.-Spanish base agreement talks addressing post-Franco frictions.[2]

In 1989, Basora joined the

post-Communist governments in Eastern Europe
and helped design and launch U.S. and multilateral assistance programs to fund rapid economic transformation of former Soviet Bloc states.

Ambassadorship

After a brief stint as a research associate at the Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs at the Foreign Service Institute, he was selected as U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia on May 1, 1992, by President George H. W. Bush. He was formally appointed on June 15 of that year and presented his credentials on July 20.[4] In the meantime, on June 1, the "Velvet Divorce" (dissolution of Czechoslovakia) had been announced, to take effect January 1, 1993, after which he continued as chief of mission in Prague and Ambassador to the Czech Republic.

Basora oversaw implementation of a $65 million U.S. assistance program to facilitate the opening of Czech civil society as well as

TV station
in the region. He left the post on July 15, 1995.

Later career

From June 1996 to August 2004 he served as president of the Eisenhower Fellowships, a Philadelphia-based organization that supports networking between potential leaders in the United States and those in other countries. He continues to serve as past president and a trustee, and as a trustee of the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), which conducts academic and leadership exchanges between the U.S. and certain post-Communist countries.

He led the Project on Democratic Transitions of the

Auschwitz Institute[9] and an independent director of the Quaker Investment Trust.[10]

Personal life

A resident of New Hampshire, he is married to Pauline Barnes, a writer, and has one daughter.[3] He is fluent in French and Spanish and has basic knowledge of Czech, Romanian and Italian.[10]

See also

  • History of the United States National Security Council 1989–1992

References

  1. ^ "Nomination of Adrian A. Basora To Be United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia". John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project [online]. May 1, 1992.
  2. ^ a b "Curriculum Vitae for Adrian A. Basora" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-14.
  3. ^ a b "Transatlantic Information Exchange Service: Adrian A. Basora". Archived from the original on 2008-10-25. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
  4. ^ "Former Ambassadors". Embassy of the United States to the Czech Republic. Archived from the original on 2011-05-22.
  5. ^ "Project on Democratic Transitions staff: Adrian Basora". Archived from the original on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2009-01-05.
  6. ^ Basora, Adrian (October 4, 2006). "Understanding Democratic Transitions". FPRI E-Notes. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009.
  7. ^ Morrison, James (October 8, 2008). "Embassy Row: Georgia, A Symptom". Washington Times.
  8. ^ Adrian A. Basora, The Georgia Crisis and Continuing Democratic Erosion in Europe/Eurasia Archived January 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, FPRI E-Notes, October 2008
  9. ^ "Adrian Basora – Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities". www.auschwitzinstitute.org. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  10. ^ a b "Adrian A. Basora - Foreign Policy Research Institute". Foreign Policy Research Institute. Archived from the original on 2017-03-10. Retrieved 2020-06-22.

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Preceded by
Shirley Temple Black
U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia

1992 		Succeeded by
Office abolished
The dissolution of Czechoslovakia became effective January 1, 1993.
Preceded by
New creation
U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic

1993–1995 		Succeeded by
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