In August 1999, Victor Jackovich
assumed a newly created State Department position of Associate
Director at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security
Studies in Garmisch, Germany.
Prior to this, Jackovich worked in Washington on a
variety of U.S. government programs dealing with Southeast Europe
and headed the State Department's office for Southeast Europe
Initiatives (SEI).
Ambassador Jackovich's most recent postings abroad
were as U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia (1995-1998), U.S. Ambassador to
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995) and Chief of the U.S. Mission to
Moldova (1992). He opened the American Embassy in Bosnia (1994) and
served there during the war.
Other assignments have included: U.S. Cultural
Attache in Moscow, Russia (1988-1990), U.S. Press Attache in
Nairobi, Kenya (1983-1986) and U.S. Cultural Attache in Bucharest,
Romania (1980-1983).
Ambassador Jackovich was born on April 24, 1948 in
Des Moines, Iowa. He graduated from Indiana University and attained
an M.A. there in 1971. He specialized in East European, Russian and
Balkan affairs and maintains fluency in several languages of these
regions.
Among his many awards for exceptional service are
the Distinguished Presidential Award (1994) for service in the
Balkans and the American Bar Association's Max Kampelman Award
(1998) for "advancing the rule of law in Central and Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union." In addition, he holds the Golden
Eagle Award (1995), which is the national medal of the Republic of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Serb Civic Society Award (1999). In
2000, he was accorded an honorary degree from the University of
Sarajevo and declared an "honorary citizen of Sarajevo."
Ambassador Jackovich is married and has one son.
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