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M. Michael Einik

American diplomat

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ85374947 ↗
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M. Michael Einik (born 1949, New York State) is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bulgarian American Business Center and former American ambassador to what is now North Macedonia (1999-2002). He was also Deputy Chief of Mission/Charge d’Affaire at the American Embassy in Bucharest, Romania (1995-1999), and Consul General at the American Consulate in Zagreb, Croatia. He is CEO of Underwater Optical Technologies in Riga, Latvia.

Einik has an MBA in International Business from George Washington University (1972) and a BBA in Economics from the University of Miami (1971).

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“M. Michael Einik” enters the record as american diplomat. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Michael, Einik and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “M. Michael Einik” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.