U.S. Embassy in Baku welcomes new deputy chief of mission William R. Gill

  12 August 2016    Read: 1819
U.S. Embassy in Baku welcomes new deputy chief of mission William R. Gill
The U.S. Embassy in Baku welcomes William R. Gill as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM), the embassy told.

According to the information, DCM Gill is a career member of the Foreign Service and joined the Department of State in 1995. Most recently, he served as a Career Development Officer in the Bureau of Human Resources in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was Acting Director and Deputy Director of Western European Affairs from 2011-2013. Earlier, he served as U.S. Consul in Milan, Italy, from 2007 to 2011, and as U.S. Consul in Beirut, Lebanon, from 2005 to 2007, when he coordinated the evacuation of 15,000 Americans during the July-August 2006 war. His other overseas postings include India and Morocco.

Mr. Gill holds a degree in History from The College of William and Mary. He is a native of Virginia, and his foreign languages are French, Azerbaijani, Italian, and Arabic.

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