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Anthropology, Arts & Culture, Education & Exchange, Politics & International Relations
A 20 year veteran of the US Foreign Service, Christian M. Wright previously served as Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, where he headed a team of over 30 men and women who strive every day to deepen the friendship between the peoples of the United States and Kazakhstan, through exchange programs, social media engagement, cultural programs and bilateral assistance. Kazakhstan being was his sixth tour in the Foreign Service, having also served as head of Public Affairs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2010-2013), in Washington on the Armenia Desk (2007-2009), two tours in the Balkans – as Vice Consul in Serbia (2003-2005) and as head of Public Affairs in Croatia (2014-2017), as well as a Cultural Attaché in Paraguay (2005-2007).
Christian has an academic background is in Anthropology, a graduate from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA in 1996. He has a strong personal interest in culture and languages, and has been an exchange student on six occasions before joining the diplomatic corps: in Rio de Janeiro for six months (’88) during high school, in Nara, Japan as a Rotary Exchange student at Kashiba High School (’90-’91), in Avignon, France working in a YMCA Youth Hostel (’92-’93), in Cairo, Egypt as a National Security Education Program scholar studying Arabic and sociology at the American University of Cairo, as a Fulbright Scholar at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (’98-’99) studying race and class relations within the temples of Afro-Brazilian religions, and as a Rotary Ambassadorial Fellow in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (’01-’02) studying photography. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, Serbo-Croatian and Russian.
A 20 year veteran of the US Foreign Service, Christian M. Wright previously served as Counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, where he headed a team of over 30 men and women who strive every day to deepen the friendship between the peoples of the United States and Kazakhstan, through exchange programs, social media engagement, cultural programs and bilateral assistance. Kazakhstan being was his sixth tour in the Foreign Service, having also served as head of Public Affairs in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (2010-2013), in Washington on the Armenia Desk (2007-2009), two tours in the Balkans – as Vice Consul in Serbia (2003-2005) and as head of Public Affairs in Croatia (2014-2017), as well as a Cultural Attaché in Paraguay (2005-2007).
Christian has an academic background is in Anthropology, a graduate from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA in 1996. He has a strong personal interest in culture and languages, and has been an exchange student on six occasions before joining the diplomatic corps: in Rio de Janeiro for six months (’88) during high school, in Nara, Japan as a Rotary Exchange student at Kashiba High School (’90-’91), in Avignon, France working in a YMCA Youth Hostel (’92-’93), in Cairo, Egypt as a National Security Education Program scholar studying Arabic and sociology at the American University of Cairo, as a Fulbright Scholar at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (’98-’99) studying race and class relations within the temples of Afro-Brazilian religions, and as a Rotary Ambassadorial Fellow in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (’01-’02) studying photography. He speaks Portuguese, Spanish, French, Serbo-Croatian and Russian.
