Roman Popadiuk

Roman Popadiuk (born May 30, 1950) is an American diplomat of Ukrainian descent. Popadiuk served as the first United States Ambassador to Ukraine under George H. W. Bush, from 1992 to 1993. From 2015 until 2017, He received a B.A. from Hunter College in 1973, and a PhD from CUNY Graduate Center in 1981. From 1995 to 1998, he served as the International Affairs Adviser on the staff of the Office of the Commandant at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C. and from 2015 until 2017 he was a principal at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP's subsidiary Morgan Lewis Consulting,

In 2012, Popadiuk became a member of the U.S.-Ukraine Energy Task Force of the Ukraine 2020 Policy Dialogue, a forum co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine and the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation in Washington, D.C., aimed at strengthening U.S.-Ukraine relations and Ukraine's integration into Europe.

On 24 October 2018, Roman Popadiuk replaced Thomas E. McNamara as the President of the Diplomacy Center Foundation (DCF), formerly the Foreign Affairs Museum Council, the private partner in a public private partnership with the United States Department of State to design, build and complete a museum on American diplomacy, National Museum of American Diplomacy (formerly United States Diplomacy Center). He has served on the DCF Board for five years prior to taking over the role of the President in 2018.

Awards and Affiliations He has received a number of awards, including the United States Department of State Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards. Other awards include the Annual Achievement Award from the Ukrainian Institute of America, the Shevchenko Freedom Award presented by the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, and the Hunter College Hall of Fame.

Popadiuk is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the Board of Advisers of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. he is on the Board of Advisers of the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University and the Washington, D.C.-based U.S.-Ukraine Business Council.

Personal life He is married to Judith Ann Fedkiw, and they have four children, Gregory, Matthew, Catherine and Mary.