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Ambassador William B. Taylor, Jr.
 Ambassador
William B. Taylor was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine on May
26, 2006.
Until February 2006 he was the U.S. government's representative to the Quartet's effort to
facilitate the Israeli disengagement from Gaza and parts of the West Bank, led by Special
Envoy James Wolfensohn in Jerusalem. The Quartet Special Envoy was responsible for the
economic aspects of this disengagement.
Prior to this assignment, he served in Baghdad as Director, Iraq Reconstruction Management
Office (2004-2005), in Kabul as coordinator of USG and international assistance to
Afghanistan (2002-2003) and in Washington with the rank of ambassador as coordinator of
USG assistance to the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1992-2002).
He previously served in Brussels as deputy defense advisor at the U.S. Mission to NATO, in
Washington on the staff of Senator Bill Bradley, at the National Defense University and in
the U.S. Department of Energy.
As an infantry officer in the U.S. Army, he served in Vietnam and Germany.
He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government.
He is married with two children.
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