Wohlers, Paul D.

<p>Paul D. Wohlers is a U.S. diplomat who served from 2011 to 2015 as the U.S. ambassador to Macedonia, stationed at the U.S. embassy in Skopje.</p>

<p>Wohlers graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1974 with a B.S. in international affairs. He then served as a Naval Flight Officer, attached to the USS Eisenhower. He earned a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1982.</p>

<p>Early in his career with the U.S. State Department, Wohlers held posts at the U.S. embassies in Bucharest, Moscow, and Nicosia. He worked on arms control issues in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs and was Desk Officer for Bangladesh in the Bureau of South Asian Affairs. He also served on the Executive Secretariat Staff.</p>

<p>Wohlers also served as Director of the Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Skopje, Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff, Senior Watch Officer in the Operations Center, and as Deputy Executive Secretary at the U.S. Department of State.</p>

<p>Wolhers was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as the sixth U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Macedonia, and he was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on August 2, 2011. He was sworn in by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on August 11, 2011, arrived in Skopje on September 12, and presented his Credentials to the President of the Republic of Macedonia on September 13, 2011.</p>

<p>Wohlers is married and has three daughters. His brother, Laurence D. Wohlers, was the U.S. Ambassador to the Central African Republic from 2010 to 2013.</p>

<p>Adjunct Faculty, Department of Political Science<br>
U.S. Naval Academy<br>
Aug 2017 – Present (3 years)<br>
Annapolis, Maryland</p>

<p>Deputy Commandant<br>
National War College<br>
Mar 2015 – Jun 2017 (2 years 4 months)<br>
Washington D.C. Metro Area</p>

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<p>Languages<br>
English<br>
Macedonian<br>
Romanian</p>

<p>Paul D. Wohlers, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Balkan nation of Macedonia on August 2, 2011. Wohlers has previous experience in Macedonia.</p>

<p>Born circa 1952, Wohlers graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1974 with a B.S. in International Affairs and served as a Naval Flight Officer, flying in the E-2C Hawkeye with VAW-121, attached to the USS Eisenhower. He earned a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law in 1982.</p>

<p>Wohlers’s first foreign posting was to the U.S. embassy in Bucharest, Romania, where he served from 1985 to 1987. Returning stateside, Wohlers worked on arms control issues in the State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs from 1987 to 1990, and returned to Eastern Europe to work in the embassy at Moscow, Russia, from 1991 to 1993.</p>

<p>Switching gears from Europe to Asia, Wohlers served as Desk Officer for Bangladesh in the Bureau of South Asian Affairs from 1993 to 1994, and served on the Executive Secretariat Staff from 1994 to 1996. He was rewarded with an assignment to the embassy in Nicosia, Cyprus, from 1997 to 2000, returning to Washington, DC, to serve as a Senior Watch Officer in the State Department Operations Center from 2000 to 2001, and for a stint as Deputy Director of the Executive Secretariat Staff from 2001 to 2003.</p>

<p>From July 2004 to July 2007 Wohlers served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, and for part of that time (March to September 2005) served as Chargé d’Affaires. He was then promoted to Director of the Office of Caucasus Affairs and Regional Conflicts in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, where he served from August 2007 to August 2011, when he was confirmed as ambassador to Macedonia.</p>

<p>Wohlers and his wife, Mary Jo, have three daughters: Rachel, Julia and Jessica.</p>

<p>Wohlers’ brother, Larry, is the U.S. ambassador to the Central African Republic.</p>