Yuri Kim will be the new Senior Advisor for Efficiency and Accountability in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs of the US Department of State.
The State Department has confirmed the new assignment of the former US ambassador to Tirana, a day after reports circulated in Albania that she had been dismissed from her post or placed under investigation.
Former Ambassador Kim's profile on the DASH website was deleted for a day, but has now been restored, updated with her details and information about the new position she will hold.
The Senior Advisor for Efficiency and Responsibility is a new task for Kim, as is the position itself, having been recently created, apparently inspired by the Department of Efficiency, which is headed by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
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Yuri Kim is the Senior Advisor for Efficiency and Accountability for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Previously, Ambassador Kim was the Bureau's Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary from 2023 to 2025.
A career diplomat, Ambassador Kim has worked on major foreign policy and national security challenges in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
She was the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Albania from 2020 to 2023, appointed by President Trump and continuing under President Biden. Prior to that, she was Director of Southern European Affairs, responsible for Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and the Eastern Mediterranean region; Director of the Center for the Study of the Behavior of Diplomacy; and Director of the Office of European Security and Politico-Military Affairs, responsible for NATO and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
She was Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of State and, earlier in her career, Special Assistant to Secretary Colin Powell. She was also a member of the U.S. delegation to the Six-Party Talks on the DPRK nuclear issue.
Overseas assignments include Turkey, Iraq, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and China. Yuri Kim holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. She grew up on the island of Guam. (A2 Televizion)
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