Ambassador Daniel Rosenblum

Ambassador Daniel N. Rosenblum is a retired career member of the Senior Executive Service. Most recently, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan (2022–2025), after previously serving as U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan (2019–2022). Prior to his ambassadorial assignments, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State responsible for Central Asia from 2014 to 2019 and earlier as Coordinator of U.S. Assistance to Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia from 2008 to 2014, overseeing major U.S. assistance programs in the region. Earlier in his career, he worked on U.S. foreign assistance and policy toward the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. Before joining the State Department in 1997, he worked with an NGO supporting independent labor unions in the former Soviet Union and studied Russian history and language at Yale and Soviet Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.