Tony Podesta and Kurt Volker, former director of the McCain Institute
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2021 1:30 pm
Tony Podesta and Ambassador Kurt Volker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Volker
Kurt Douglas Volker[1] (born December 27, 1964)[2] is an American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to NATO and served as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership. He worked in a volunteer capacity as the U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine until his resignation on September 27, 2019..
After a short tenure as a CIA analyst,[8] in 1988, Volker joined the United States Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer in the United States Foreign Service.[5] While in the Foreign Service, he served in various assignments overseas including London and Brussels, and the US Embassy in Budapest (1994–1997). Volker was special assistant to the United States special envoy for Bosnia negotiations, Richard Holbrooke..
Volker went into the private sector in 2009, becoming an independent director at The Wall Street Fund Inc,[11] where he worked until 2012. He was a member of the board of directors at Capital Guardian Funds Trust[12] beginning in 2013.[13] Volker was also an independent director at Evercore Wealth Management Macro Opportunity Fund until 2012.
Volker served as a senior advisor at McLarty Associates, a global consulting firm from 2010–2011.
In 2011, he joined BGR Group, a Washington-based lobbying firm and investment bank, where he currently serves as a managing director in the firm's international group.[15]
He then became executive director of Arizona State University's McCain Institute for International Leadership[16] when it was launched[17] in 2012. He resigned in 2019.[18]
He has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies since September 2009, and a Senior Advisor at the Atlantic Council since October 2009. Volker is currently listed as a trustee at the CG Funds Trust,[19] and a member of the board of trustees at IAU College in Aix-en-Provence. He is also a member of the board of directors at The Hungary Initiatives Foundation.[20] In addition, Volker is a member of the Atlantic Partnership..
In mid-September 2019, reports began to surface suggesting that a whistleblower complaint had been submitted to Michael K. Atkinson, the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, which he found to be credible and a matter of “urgent concern”.[25] Subsequently, claims were advanced by various chairmen of U.S. House committees that Kurt Volker, while acting in his official capacity as US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, had been told by the White House "to intercede with President Zelensky" about investigations regarding Joe Biden and Paul Manafort..
In June 2019, Volker married Georgian journalist for Voice of America Ia Meurmishvili