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The United States Permanent Representative to NATO (commonly called the US Ambassador to NATO) is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The Representative has the rank of full ambassador and is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The full official title of the Representative is “United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary”. The current U.S. Ambassador to NATO is Ivo Daalder.

The first Representative was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953.

The following is a list of US Permanent Representatives to NATO.

Ambassador	Dates served
William H. Draper, Jr.	April 8, 1953 – June 13, 1953
John C. Hughes	June 12, 1953 – April 20, 1955
George W. Perkins	March 14, 1955 – October 12, 1957
W. Randolph Burgess	September 21, 1957 – March 23, 1961
Thomas K. Finletter	March 2, 1961 – September 2, 1965
Harlan Cleveland	September 1, 1965 – June 11, 1969
Robert F. Ellsworth	May 13, 1969 – June 30, 1971
David M. Kennedy	March 17, 1972 – February 1, 1973
Donald Rumsfeld	February 2, 1973 – December 5, 1974
David K. E. Bruce	October 17, 1974 – February 12, 1976
Robert Strausz-Hupé	March 3, 1976 – April 20, 1977
W. Tapley Bennett, Jr.	April 26, 1977 – March 31, 1983
David Abshire	July 13, 1983 – January 5, 1987
Alton G. Keel, Jr.	March 13, 1987 – June 17, 1989
William Howard Taft IV	August 3, 1989 – June 26, 1992
Reginald Bartholomew	June 15, 1992 – March 25, 1993
Robert E. Hunter	July 1, 1993 – December 31, 1997
Alexander Vershbow	November 10, 1997 – July 9, 2001
R. Nicholas Burns	August 7, 2001 – March 7, 2005
Victoria Nuland	July 13, 2005[1] – c. July 2008
Kurt Volker	July 2, 2008 – May 15, 2009
Ivo Daalder	May 15, 2009 – present

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• NNDB
• US NATO mission website
• List of NATO ambassadors — US State Department
• U.S. Dep’t of State: Biography of Kurt Volker, current ambassador

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