George P. Kent
American diplomat
George P. Kent is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Estonia from 2023 to 2025.
Kent served as deputy assistant secretary of state for the European and Eurasian Affairs from 2018 to 2021. As a career United States Foreign Service officer, his early service has included assignments in the U.S. diplomatic missions to Poland, Thailand and Uzbekistan. In 2004, he was assigned to serve as deputy political counselor in Kyiv, Ukraine, and was deputy chief of mission in Kyiv from 2015 to 2018.
On October 15, 2019, Kent gave a deposition in the House impeachment inquiry of President Trump. He appeared again before the House Intelligence Committee in a public hearing alongside Ambassador Bill Taylor, the U.S. chargé d'affaires ad interim to Ukraine.
Education
Kent graduated from high school in 1985 at Porter-Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in Russian History & Literature from Harvard University. He then earned a Master of Arts from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in 1992. Kent later graduated with a Master of Science in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces of the National Defense University in 2012.
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