“It’s an honor, 18 million Americans have Italian ancestry.”

“Carla and I are very happy to be in Rome. It is an honor and a privilege for me He is Ambassador specific from the United States In the Italian Republic and the Republic of San Marino. I intend to consolidate the closest possible ties and celebrate the bonds that have united our peoples for centuries.” These are the first words he said upon his arrival at the airport. Fiumicino fromDesignated Ambassador Jacques Marquel.

He is the thirty-ninth ambassador to Italy

«Eighteen million Americans have Italian ancestry. Markel continued: President Lincoln was an honorary citizen of San Marino. The economic, security, and cultural ties between our two countries benefit the people of Italy, the people of San Marino, and the people of the United States. I can’t wait to present my credentials to President Mattarella like xxxix The US ambassador to Italy and getting to know the people of Italy and San Marino.” And one month after his confirmation in the Senate – on July 27 Georgia Meloni was located in Washington – the newly appointed US ambassador to Italy, Jack Markellarrived in Rome after a The “evacuation” of the headquarters in Via Veneto which lasted from January 2021when his predecessor, Louis Eisenberg, left Italy – the only G7 country so far without an ambassador – in the aftermath Changing of the guard In the White House between Donald trump Joe Biden.

Political life

Sixty-three years In November, with two mandates from Governor of Delaware From 2009 to 2017 – Delaware is the state Biden represented in the Senate for 36 years before becoming a Representative under Barack Obama – Markel Loyal to the American president. During his tenure as governor, the resume on the US Embassy website reads: “Delaware emerged from the Great Recession with the strongest job growth in the region and among the states with the highest private sector wage increases.” For just over a year, he was the U.S. representative at theOrganization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, after serving for a few months as the White House coordinator for the operation.Allied refuge», with which the US government brought some Afghan civilians into the country, especially interpreters and US embassy staff, after the military withdrawal from Afghanistan in August two years ago.

Board

Born in 1960 in Newark, Delaware, he graduated from Brown University and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. Great lover bikeexcited Poetry and music production, Markel is married to Carlavery involved in humanitarian activities, for example father of two (sire And Michael). At the center of his term — which according to practice will end in January 2025, regardless of whether or not Biden is reappointed when the new president is sworn in — will be primarily economic files, given his experience in communications (before getting involved in the public sector, Markel held the position of vice president for business development Nextel, among various private sector jobs, which include Comcast and McKinsey & Company). The new ambassador finally arrives on the eve of the Italian government’s decision, which is taken for granted, on the… Withdraw from the note Silk RoadIt is the membership that the Americans did not like, a few months after the start of the presidency of the Group of Seven, last January.