On June 22, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Kristina A. Kvien as Ambassador to the Republic of Armenia. On July 11, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Kristina A. Kvien, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor, serves as Deputy Chief of Mission at U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. She was previously Chargé d’Affaires ad interim from 2020-2022. Before that, Kvien served as Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, France, and as Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. In Paris and Bangkok, she served more than one year as Acting Deputy Chief of Mission.
She also served as Economic Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in London. Earlier in her career, Kvien was detailed to the National Security Council in Washington, D.C., as Director for E.U., Ukraine, and Belarus affairs. Other overseas assignments include the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, Russia; the U.S. Mission to the E.U. in Brussels; and the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Republic of the Philippines. Domestic assignments include the Office of European and Regional Affairs, and the Office of Central European Affairs, both in the Bureau of Europe and Eurasian Affairs.
Kvien, a native of California, holds a B.A. from Occidental College and an M.S. from the U.S. Army War College. She receives multiple State Department performance awards and speaks Russian and French.
