Ambassador Kurt Volker is a leading expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy with over 35 years of experience in a variety of government, academic, and private sector capacities.
Ambassador Volker is the Member of the Advisory Board at NEQSOL Holding.
He served as U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017 to 2019, and as U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2008-2009.
Ambassador Volker is the Founder and President of Alliance Strategic Advisors, LLC. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), co-Chair of the American University Kyiv, and a member of the Advisory Board at BGR Group.
He also remains a Senior Advisor at the Atlantic Council; a Trustee of the American College of the Mediterranean; a Trustee of the Hungary Foundation; a member of the GLOBSEC International Advisory Board; a Board member of Ukrainian American House, and a member of the International Advisory Board of the U.S. Institute for Peace.
From 2012-2019, Ambassador Volker was the founding Executive Director of The McCain Institute for International Leadership, a part of Arizona State University based in Washington, DC. He also served as a Director of CG Funds Trust and the Wall Street Fund.
Ambassador Volker has lived in the UK, Belgium, Hungary, Sweden and France. He speaks fluent Hungarian, Swedish and French, and is learning Georgian.
He has taught Transatlantic Relations at Arizona State University as well as The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, where he is also a member of that School's Board of Advisors.