American Business Group Milan

Speaker for June 2008 Lunch

A. Daniel Weygandt

A. Daniel Weygandt assumed his role as Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General Milan in September 2007. Prior to this he was Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs at U.S. Embassy Baghdad. From 2004 to 2006, he served as Director of the Office of Austrian, German, and Swiss Affairs in the Bureau of European Affairs in the State Department. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Weygandt was Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Vienna.

Mr. Weygandt has been a member of the United States Foreign Service since 1979, and served as Minister-Counselor for Economic Affairs and First Secretary of the Economic Section at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow; as Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Hamburg; as First Secretary and Civil Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn; and as Vice Consul to the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul. In addition, Mr. Weygandt served as a senior economist in the Office of Central European Affairs at the Department of State in Washington, DC; as Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organizations in Rome; and as international affairs officer at the Bureau of United Nations Affairs in Washington.

He received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Minnesota.

Mr. Weygandt speaks French, Turkish, Italian, German and Russian.