Kristina Kvien arrived at U.S. Embassy Kyiv in May 2019. From 2016 – April 2019, she served as acting deputy chief of mission/minister counselor for economic affairs at U.S. Embassy Paris. Previously, Kvien served as acting deputy chief of mission and economic counselor at U.S. Embassy Bangkok, Thailand; economic counselor at U.S. Embassy London; and director for European Union, Ukraine, and Belarus affairs at the National Security Council in the Executive Office of the President. She has also served at U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russia; the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium; and the U.S. Embassy Manila, Philippines. At the Department of State in Washington, D.C., Kristina worked on European Union issues and on bilateral relations with Slovenia.
Kvien is a native of California, with a B.A. in political science from Occidental College and an M.S. in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College.
