US President nominates Marc Evans Knapper as ambassador to Vietnam

Marc Evans Knapper nominated to be US ambassador to Vietnam (Source: yonhap)

Hanoi (VNA) – US President Joe Biden has nominated Marc EvansKnapper, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Japan and the Republic of Korea in theBureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State, to be USambassador to Vietnam, according to a White House statement.

Along with Knapper - a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class ofMinister-Counselor, eight other diplomats have been nominated as ambassadors torepresent the US in Somali, Algeria, Bahrain, Lesotho, Cameroon, Angola,Guinea-Bissau, and the Republic of the Congo.  

Before assuming that position, Knapper was the Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of the USEmbassy in Seoul, the RoK, and, prior to that, was the Embassy’s Deputy Chiefof Mission.  Earlier, Knapper wasDirector of the State Department’s Office of India Affairs and Director of theState Department’s Office of Japanese Affairs, the statement said.

His other assignments include leadership positions in the US Embassy inBaghdad, Iraq, and the US Embassy in Tokyo, Japan.

Knapper earned his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. from the ArmyWar College. 

He speaks Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese.

President Biden had earlier nominated outgoing US Ambassador to Vietnam DanielKritenbrink to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and PacificAffairs./.

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