On September 16, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate B. Bix Aliu as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Estonia. On September 19, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
B. Bix Aliu is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minster-Counselor. Aliu most recently served as Chargé d’affaires, ad interim of the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary. Before that, he was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Poland and was Chargé d’affaires, ad interim throughout 2021. Previously, Aliu was the Consul General of the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow and decorated with the Honoris Gratia Medal, the city’s highest honor, for his significant advancement of economic and cultural ties between the United States and Krakow. Aliu’s other assignments include service as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Podgorica, Montenegro, Public Diplomacy Officer in Tirana, Albania, Deputy Orientation Coordinator at the Department of State’s National Foreign Affairs Training Center, and serving in Congress as a Pearson Congressional Fellow.
Aliu holds a Medical Degree from the University of Pristina, Kosovo, and a Master of Strategic Studies Degree from the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Aliu receives multiple performance awards from the Department of State and speaks Montenegrin, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Macedonian, and Albanian.
