Kent D. Logsdon is a career diplomat, foreign policy expert, and senior leader who served for more than three decades in the United States Foreign Service. Ambassador Logsdon has supported U.S. diplomatic engagement across Europe and Eurasia through senior leadership roles at the Department of State and overseas assignments in Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Ambassador Logsdon most recently served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Global Talent Management Bureau from June 2024 to April 2025. Prior to that, he served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova from 2021 to 2024. His previous Washington assignments include Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Energy Resources; Executive Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources; Deputy Executive Secretary of the Department of State; Director of the Operations Center; and Director of the Office of Russian Affairs.

Ambassador Logsdon’s overseas leadership experience includes serving as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, where he also served as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim from January 2017 to May 2018. He also served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Tbilisi, Georgia, and as Political Counselor in Kyiv, Ukraine. Earlier in his diplomatic career, he held assignments in Bangkok, Thailand; Almaty, Kazakhstan; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Stuttgart, Germany.

Ambassador Logsdon is originally from Sewickley, Pennsylvania. He holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Virginia and a bachelor’s degree in government from the University of Notre Dame. He speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Thai, German, and Romanian. He and his wife Michelle, who recently retired from a diplomatic career, live in Virginia and have two adult children.