Paul Hacker

Career After joining the Foreign Service in 1973, Hacker held overseas assignments at Embassy Stockholm, Sofia, Nicosia, Manila and Helsinki.

From 1990 to 1992, Hacker was assigned to the former Czechoslovakia to serve as Consul General to the Slovakian city of Bratislava. Deputy Principal Officer, and acting Consul General He then served as a Cultural Officer at the U.S. Embassy Kyiv, retiring from the foreign service in 2003. After his retirement, he has worked as translator and editor from Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Russian. He also taught a course on diplomacy in 1994 at the Florida International University (FIU) in Miami and also one course on the same subject in 2003 at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy [College].

Personal Born in New York City, Paul Hacker graduated from City College of New York and the Columbia University (with a PhD degree in political science in 1976). He is the author of Slovakia on the Road to Independence: An American Diplomat's Eyewitness Account (2010), a book in which he provides a first-hand account of his experience at the crucial period of Slovak history toward independence and its diplomatic relations with the United States. His memoirs were translated into Slovak in 2014 entitled "Slovensko 1990-1993." (translated by Dr. Eva Salnerová), Artforum 2014: Bratislava.

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