Michael W. Michalak

Michael W. Michalak, a career Foreign Service Officer, was sworn in as the United States Ambassador to Vietnam on August 10, 2007. Prior to this position, Ambassador Michalak served as the U.S. Senior Official to APEC, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

In his over 30 years of service with the U.S. Department of State, Mr. Michalak has worked in Tokyo, Japan; Sydney, Australia; Islamabad, Pakistan; Beijing, China; as well as Washington, DC, where he was assigned to the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, the Office for Japan and the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs. He received a group award for valor for his actions in time of crisis when the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad was burned down.