Robert M. Witajewski

Robert M. Witajewski (born November 17, 1946) is an American former diplomat who was a Senior Member of the American Foreign Service.

Biography Witajewski was born in Saginaw, Michigan on November 17, 1946.

Education In 1964 he graduated from Holy Rosary High School.

He is known to possess degrees from the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, and Princeton University. working closely with the democratic opposition in Cuba.

Under President George W. Bush, Witajewski served as Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Country Director in Iraq. From July 2003 to September 2004, he served in Nassau, The Bahamas as Chargé d'affaires ad interim or temporary Chief of Mission. While there, he was responsible for evacuating the embassy three times due to oncoming Category Four and Five hurricanes.

In May 2008, Witajewski represented the US Department of State as the Director for the Office of Regional Affairs at the 7th meeting of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific Study Group on Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Asia-Pacific, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.