President Joe Biden nominated Kent Doyle Logsdon as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Moldova, IPN reports, quoting the website of the White House.

Kent Doyle Logsdon is a career Foreign Service member with the rank of ministerial adviser and chief of personnel at the Under Secretariat for Economic Growth, Energy and Environment. Earlier, he held the post of senior deputy assistant in the Bureau of Energy Resources and was deputy head of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, as charge d’affaires, since January 2017 until May 2018. Before this, Logsdon served as executive assistant of the deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and deputy executive secretary of the Department of State.

Currently, the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova is held by Dereck J. Hogan. The diplomat was named to the post by a decree signed by Donald Trump in 2018, being the successor of James Pettit who was named in 2014 by the previous U.S. President Barack Obama.