Michael McKinley

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Mike McKinley
Dennis Jett
Succeeded byBrian Curran
Personal details
Born
Peter Michael McKinley

January 1954 (age 70)
Caracas, Venezuela
SpouseFatima Salces Arce
EducationUniversity of Southampton (BA)
Linacre College, Oxford (MPhil, PhD)

Peter Michael McKinley (born January 1954) is an American diplomat. A career

U.S. Secretary of State
(2018–2019).

Early life and education

McKinley was born in

D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.[2] He was a member of Linacre College, Oxford.[3]

Career

McKinley joined the

chargé d'affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Mozambique from July 1996 to December 1997.[4]

From 2001 until 2004, McKinley served as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. He then was deputy chief of mission and chargé d' affaires at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels from 2004 to 2007.[1]

McKinley served as the

United States Ambassador to Colombia from 2010 to 2013.[4] The United States Senate confirmed McKinley's nomination to both posts by voice vote.[5][6] As ambassador to Colombia, McKinley demanded the release of an American man who had been abducted by the militant group FARC;[7] the man was later released.[8] McKinley was U.S. Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2013 to 2014.[1]

On December 9, 2014, the Senate confirmed McKinley to be the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan by voice vote.[9] He presented his credentials in Kabul on January 6, 2015.[4] During a tense period of political instability in 2016, McKinley met nearly daily between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his coalition partner, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah; McKinley acted as a mediator and engaged in shuttle diplomacy to try to preserve the fragile national coalition government and stymie an upsurge in Taliban activity in Afghanistan.[10] As U.S. Ambassador, McKinley called upon the Afghan government to conduct a full, transparent investigation into the allegations of Ahmad Ishchi of Jowzjan Province, who in 2016 accused General Abdul Rashid Dostum of abducting and torturing him.[11]

McKinley served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan until December 18, 2016, upon being appointed

credentials on January 20, 2017 and served until November 3, 2018, when he took up the post of Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State.[4][14]

On October 10, 2019, McKinley resigned from the State Department in protest of the failure of Secretary of State

Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan, but received no response.[21] McKinley's testimony, and that of other high-ranking U.S. diplomats, revealed deep discontent among the U.S. diplomatic corps with Pompeo's leadership.[22]

In 2020, McKinley, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."[23]

Published works

McKinley's Pre-revolutionary Caracas: Politics, Economy and Society 1777-1811 (1985),

American Historical Review described it as "the first English-language monograph to appear on colonial Venezuela in over ten years and ... the first in language to provide a broad synthesis of the late colonial period."[24]

Personal life

He is married to Fatima Salces Arce; they have three children.[25] In addition to English, McKinley speaks Spanish, French, and Portuguese.[25]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "P. Michael McKinley". United States Department of State. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  2. ^ President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, White House Office of the Press Secretary (August 28, 2014).
  3. ^ The Grapevine, Linacre News (Autumn 2016, Issue 50), p. 16.
  4. ^ a b c d e Peter Michael McKinley (1954–), Office of the Historian, United States Department of State.
  5. ^ PN426 — Peter Michael McKinley — Department of State, 110th Congress (2007-2008), Congress.gov.
  6. ^ PN1764 — Peter Michael McKinley — Department of State, 111th Congress (2009-2010), Congress.gov.
  7. ^ William Neuman, Colombian Rebels Holding an American, New York Times (July 20, 2013).
  8. ^ Mary Murray & Daniel Arkin, Colombian rebels free kidnapped former US Marine Kevin Scott Sutay, NBC News (October 27, 2013).
  9. ^ PN1992 — Peter Michael McKinley — Department of State, 113th Congress (2013-2014), Congress.gov.
  10. ^ Mujib Mashal, Senators, Visiting Afghanistan, Warn Trump Over Diplomatic Vacancies, New York Times (July 4, 2017).
  11. ^ Mujib Mashal & Jawad Sukhanyar, Afghanistan to Investigate Vice President on Charges of Assaulting a Rival, New York Times (December 27, 2016).
  12. ^ "U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 114th Congress - 2nd Session". www.senate.gov. Retrieved October 6, 2017.
  13. ^ PN1500 — Peter Michael McKinley — Department of State, 114th Congress (2015-2016), Congress.gov.
  14. ^ "Farewell Message by Ambassador McKinley: Partners for a better tomorrow". US Embassy and Consulates. November 5, 2018.
  15. ^ Aaron Blake & Amber Phillips, 7 takeaways from Marie Yovanovitch's and Michael McKinley's Ukraine testimony, Washington Post (November 4, 2019).
  16. ^ DeYoung, Karen (October 10, 2019). "Senior adviser to Pompeo resigns". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
  17. ^ a b Fandos, Nicholas; Barnes, Julian E.; Shear, Michael D. (October 16, 2019). "Former Top State Dept. Aide Tells Impeachment Investigators He Quit Over Ukraine". The New York Times.
  18. ^ Raju, Manu; Herb, Jeremy (October 16, 2019). "Former State adviser says Pompeo was silent on Yovanovitch ouster". CNN.
  19. ^ Desiderio, Andrew; Cheney, Kyle (October 16, 2019). "Ex-Pompeo adviser tells Congress he resigned over Trump's attacks on Yovanovitch". Politico.
  20. ^ a b c READ: Ex-State Department Adviser Michael McKinley's Testimony To Congress, NPR (November 4, 2019).
  21. ^ a b Michael Warren, Ex-Pompeo adviser tells lawmakers State's top Eurasia official felt 'bullied' by department, CNN (November 4, 2019).
  22. ^ Carol Morello, Testimony exposes deepening discontent with Pompeo at State Department, Washington Post (October 16, 2019).
  23. ^ "Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden". Defending Democracy Together. August 20, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2021.
  24. ^
    American Historical Review
    , Vol. 93, Issue 1, February 1988, pp. 262–263.
  25. ^ a b Hannah Stone, Obama nominates new ambassador to Colombia, Colombia Reports (May 7, 2010).

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Dennis Jett
United States Ambassador to Mozambique
Acting

1996–1997 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to the European Union
Acting

2005–2006 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Peru

2007–2010 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
William Brownfield
United States Ambassador to Colombia

2010–2013 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Afghanistan

2015–2016 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to Brazil

2017–2018 		Succeeded by
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