Pjer Šimunović

Pjer Šimunović (born 8 January 1962) is Croatian diplomat and former journalist who has served as the Croatian Ambassador to the United States since 2017. He presented his credentials to President Donald Trump at the White House on September 8, 2017. He succeeded Josip Paro, who served as Croatia's ambassador in Washington from April 2012 to May 2016.

Education Born in Split, Croatia, while it was a part of Yugoslavia, Šimunović earned a B.A. in Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Italian Language and Literature at the University of Zagreb in 1988.

In a 2013 interview with Israeli political activist Michael Freund of The Jerusalem Post, Šimunović revealed that he is the first cousin, twice removed, of Jakša Kalogjera (of the aristocratic Kalogjera family of Blato, Korčula), declared Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 2001.