White House nominates Adrian Zuckerman to be new US Ambassador in Bucharest

Anca Alexe 25/07/2018 | 08:16

US President Donald Trump has nominated Adrian Zuckerman, a lawyer who emigrated from Romania to the US at the age of 10 and speaks fluent Romanian, to be the next US ambassador in Bucharest, replacing current ambassador Hans Klemm.

According to a statement by the White House, Zuckerman is a New York attorney who was admitted to the New York bar in 1984 and is a partner in the international law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Previously, Mr. Zuckerman was co-head of national real estate and corporate services at Epstein Becker & Green, PC, New York, and prior to that the head of real estate, Lowenstein Sandler, LLP, New York.

He has also acted as the chair of a civil court judicial screening panel and as an arbitrator for the Real Estate Board of New York. Active in philanthropic and educational initiatives, Mr. Zuckerman is a member of the board of Kids Corp. and serves on the alumni board of New York Law School. Mr. Zuckerman immigrated to the United States from Romania at the age of 10 and is fluent in Romanian. He received his undergraduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his law degree from New York Law School.

As the procedure states, Zuckerman will be subject to a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Commission in the US Senate, and if his nomination is approved, the Senate will cast a vote.