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Alex Wolff


United States Ambassador to Chile
In office October 25, 2010 – August 10, 2013
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Paul Simons
Succeeded by	Michael A. Hammer
United States Ambassador to the United Nations Acting
In office December 31, 2006 – April 30, 2007
President	George W. Bush
Preceded by	John R. Bolton
Succeeded by	Zalmay Khalilzad

Personal details
Born	1956 (age 67–68)
Children	2
Education	University of California, Los Angeles (BA)

Alejandro Daniel Wolff (born 1956) is an American diplomat who served as the US Ambassador to Chile from 2010 to 2013. He was the acting U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations until Zalmay Khalilzad was appointed as permanent representative. He was made the representative after the resignation of John Bolton on December 9, 2006. Previously he had been the Deputy U.S. representative to the United Nations.

He graduated from UCLA in 1978. Wolff joined the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in 1979. His assignments in Washington include tours on the Policy Planning Staff (1981–1982); in the Office of Soviet Union Affairs (1988–1989); in the Office of the Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1989–1991); as deputy executive secretary of the department (1996–1998); and as the executive assistant to secretaries of state Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell (1998–2001).

Wolff has served in Algeria, Morocco, Chile, Cyprus, the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels and France. His most recent assignment was ambassador and deputy permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations (2005–2010).

Wolff is the recipient of the Department of State's Distinguished, Superior, and Meritorious Honor Awards. He is married, with two children, and speaks French and Spanish.

Wolff is an advisory board member of the Counter Extremism Project.

References

"White House announces John Bolton's resignation". International Herald Tribune. 2006-12-04. Retrieved 2009-01-03.
"President Bush Accepts Ambassador John Bolton's Resignation as U.S. Representative to the United Nations". White House, Office of the Press Secretary. 2006-12-04. Retrieved 2006-12-04.
"Leadership". Counter Extremism Project.

External links

Appearances on C-SPAN

Diplomatic posts
Preceded byJohn R. Bolton	United States Ambassador to the United Nations Acting 2006–2007	Succeeded byZalmay Khalilzad
Preceded byPaul Simons	United States Ambassador to Chile 2010–2013	Succeeded byMichael A. Hammer

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v t e United States ambassadors to Chile
Minister Plenipotentiary	Allen
Chargé d'Affaires	Larned Hamm Pollard Pendleton Crump Barton
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Peyton Starkweather Bigler Nelson Kilpatrick Root Logan Osborn Kilpatrick Logan Roberts Egan Porter Strobel Wilson Hicks Dawson Fletcher
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Fletcher Shea Collier Culbertson Sevier Philip Armour Bowers Beaulac Lyon Howe Woodward Cole Dungan Korry Davis Popper Landau Theberge Barnes Gillespie Kamman Guerra-Mondragón O'Leary Brownfield Kelly Simons Wolff Hammer Perez Meehan

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