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Christopher J. HohDeputy Chief of Mission
Christopher J. Hoh is the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna. He arrived at post in June 2009. From September 2008 until June 2009, he served as Associate Dean at the Foreign Service Institute of the United States Department of State outside Washington, D.C. He was responsible mainly for programs in stability operations and area studies. From 2007 to 2009, he was Director for South Central European Affairs in the State Department, overseeing U.S. policy and programs related to Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. He previously served in this office as Deputy Director, Peace Initiative team member and Croatia Desk Officer. He has participated in settlement negotiations and peacekeeping planning for Eastern Slavonia (Croatia), Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia. From 2004 to 2006 Mr. Hoh was Director for Response Strategy and Resource Management in the new U.S. Office for Reconstruction and Stabilization, charged with improving civilian deployment to stability operations in post-conflict states. From 2003 to 2004 he served as a Special Adviser for Secretary of State Powell's Diplomatic Readiness Initiative. He was Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, Bosnia from 2000 to 2003. A career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, Mr. Hoh has been assigned to Bonn, Germany; the United Nations in New York; Lima, Peru; the State Department in Washington, D.C. and as a peacekeeping observer in Egypt's Sinai desert. His domestic assignments have included international organization affairs and the State Department Operations Center in addition to his work on the Balkans and a variety of special project teams. Mr. Hoh is a native of Reading, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Reading Senior High School. He attended Georgetown University, receiving a Bachelor's degree in international relations, law and organization. Before joining the diplomatic service, he worked in the UN Secretariat's NGO liaison office and its oral history program. He also led several student model United Nations Conferences, serving as Secretary General of the National College Model UN in 1983. Mr. Hoh speaks German, Spanish, and Bosnian. He and his partner make their home in Arlington, Virginia, where his hobbies include gardening and classical music. He is a published composer whose choral music has been performed in several states and countries and has been included on CDs from ERMMedia being released in 2009. e-mail: embassy@usembassy.at |
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