Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy, Jr. DISTINGUISHED FOREIGN SERVICE CAREERIST Ambassador Tibor P. Nagy, Jr., currently serving as Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs at Texas Tech University, has an impressive record of diplomatic service in Africa. He now puts to work some of the knowledge he gained in educating Americans and others concerned – young students and mature professionals – on the need for global environmental links. He attended the Department of State’s prestigious Senior Seminar. During the 2002 academic year he was the Department of State’s “Diplomat in Residence” at the University of Oklahoma. Previously he was the U.S. Ambassador to Guinea from 1996-99 and to Ethiopia from 1999-2002. Ambassador Nagy has lectured extensively at educational institutions and to civic groups around the U.S. about US foreign policy, Africa, diplomatic careers and Foreign Service life. Ambassador Nagy joined the Foreign Service in 1978. After an initial stint as a management analyst in the Bureau of Personnel, he was posted overseas, first as General Services Officer in Lusaka, Zambia. After that, he was assigned to increasingly responsible posts in Victoria, Seychelles; the African Bureau in Washington from 1983-84 and then back overseas in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. For the next eight years, he moved up the career path in Lome, Togo; Yaounde, Cameroon; and Lagos, Nigeria. His pinnacle posts were Ambassador to Guinea 1996-99 and Ambassador to Ethiopia 1999-2002. Ambassador Nagy was born in Budapest, Hungary on April 29, 1949 and arrived in the United States as a political refugee in 1957. He received a B.A. from Texas Tech University in 1972 and an M.S.A. from George Washington University in 1978. He speaks Hungarian and French, and has received a Superior Honor Award, five Meritorious Honor Awards as well as being runner up for the prestigious “Deputy Chief of Mission of the Year” award. Ambassador Nagy is a resident of Texas, and is married to Eva Jane Nagy. The Nagys have triplets - two sons and a daughter: Peter, Stephen, and Tisza. # # #