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US diplomat Kurt Volcker, who served as the US State Department Special Representative for Ukraine in 2017-2019, was appointed an independent member of the board of directors of BGS Rail, which operates in Ukraine, in August.
The US diplomat, former special representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, Kurt Volcker, became an independent member of the board of directors of the BGS Rail company operating in Ukraine. Information about this is published on the BGS Rail website.
Volcker joined the company in August.
“Volcker’s presence will help BGS Rail to be successful in developing and implementing growth plans that will increase foreign direct investment and create jobs in the Ukrainian market,” quotes a press release from the Center for Transportation Strategies. BGS rail.
From now on, Volcker will also serve as an advisor to the president and board of directors of parent company Avia Solutions Group.
The BGS Rail website reports that the company offers open hatch wagons for long-term leases. It was created by Baltic Ground Services (BGS), which, in turn, belongs to the Avia Solutions Group. – The largest aviation company in Central and Eastern Europe (it is based in Cyprus, but most of its employees work in Lithuania).
BGS received a license to provide rail freight services in Ukraine in 2018. The head of the company’s Ukrainian “daughter” is Lithuanian Darius Zakarauskas, he is also the head of the board of directors.
Volker graduated from Temple University in Philadelphia and then studied for two years at the George Washington University School of International Relations. He began his career as a CIA analyst in 1986, and two years later went to work in the Foreign Service of the State Department. In 1998 he became the first secretary of the US mission to NATO. His later work was related in some way to NATO and the State Department. In 2008-2009, Volcker served as the Permanent Representative of the United States to NATO. In 2009, he retired from public service, but returned to it in July 2017: he was appointed special representative of the State Department for Ukraine. The diplomat was in this position until September 2019. Resigned the next day publication of a complaint US intelligence officer to a telephone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Volcker was named in the complaint.
IN document It is indicated that on July 26, 2019, the day after the presidents’ conversation, Volker arrived in Ukraine and met with Zelensky and other Ukrainian politicians. Along with the special envoy was the then US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland. According to the insider, Volcker and Sondland gave Zelensky advice on what to do about Trump’s demands on the Ukrainian president.
For seven and a half years, until October 2019, Volcker was the executive director of the McCain Institute. He said he decided to leave the position due to media attention to his work as a special representative. State Department of Ukraine.
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