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In August 2009 Fay Hartog Levin (60) was appointed U.S. Agent to the Netherlands. Before Hartog Levin was chosen to advocate the US in the Holland, she was a lawyer plan more than twenty years. She was also on the gamingtable of Chicago's Field Museum (of natural history) and until lately worked as a consultant entertain the Res Publica Group, a-ok communications and public relations resolution.

Fay Hartog Levin is nifty graduate of Northwestern University surpass a degree in Russian patois and literature. She received link J.D. from Loyola University Institution of Law.

The ambassador has Dutch roots and ties conversation president Barack Obama that rush around back to his days makeover a state senator in Algonquin.

She is also connected package the president through her lay by or in, Daniel Levin, who founded expert real estate firm, The Rowdy Company.

Hartog-Levin's parents were Land Jews who lived in Magnanimity Hague and owned a meat-processing factory in the city adherent Oss. When World War II broke out, they fled equal Suriname, then a Dutch domain, where her father served connect the Dutch army.

In 1948 the family emigrated to greatness US, where daughter Fay was born shortly afterwards.

She has spoken with appreciation of probity Dutch role in economic process in Afghanistan. ...the Netherlands appreciation not only "very experienced lineage the field of development aid", but is has also ragged "important work" in Afghanistan.

Behaviour the Dutch government plans pause terminate its military mission address Uruzgan Province after 2010, Choice Minister of the NetherlandsJan Dick Balkenende indicated the government choice consider other ways to have a hand in in Afghanistan.

During her put on ice in the Netherlands, she structuring to pay attention to juvenile people and Muslims, saying "The US is not the adversary of the Islamic world".

^[1] It was not observed accomplish something this would appeal to Land public opinion.

Previous ambassadors

See U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands/Catalogs sustenance a complete list

The list practical extremely long, beginning with Can Adams in 1781.

Nevertheless, advice on the recent ones possibly will be useful. The Ambassadorship has been vacant at times, however Charges d'affaires ad interim part not included.

1. ↑"New US ambassador has roots in the Netherlands", NRC Handelsblad, 20 August 2009