Daniel Rosenblum, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, has been confirmed to the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Uzbekistan.

This post is currently held by Pamela Leora Spratlen, who was nominated by President Barack Obama on July 28, 2014, and approved by the Senate on November 20, 2014. She was sworn in as US Ambassador to Uzbekistan on December 18, 2014 and took office on January 19, 2015.

Mr. Rosenblum has served in senior United States Government positions for more than two decades, managing people and resources, leading negotiations, building consensus, and communicating publicly about United States Government policy toward the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia. A Russian-speaker, Mr. Rosenblum has put together billion-dollar aid packages to stabilize and rebuild countries in crisis, organized and led interagency teams in support of counter-terrorism goals, and forged strong diplomatic ties with key United States partners in Central Asia.