Career
After joining the Foreign Service in 1973,Hacker held overseas assignments at Embassy Stockholm,Sofia,Nicosia,Manila and Helsinki. [6]
From 1990 to 1992,Hacker was assigned to the former Czechoslovakia to serve as Consul General to the Slovakian city of Bratislava. [6] Experiencing the Velvet Divorce in 1993,resulting in the independence of Slovak Republic and Czech Republic respectively,he was in charge of the U.S. effort to establish an embassy at Bratislava, [7] : 18–19 [4] turning it into a self-run mission from the U.S. Embassy in Prague. [6] From January 4,1993,he served as the embassy's first chief of mission (Chargés d'affaires ad interim) until July 7, [7] : 88 [3] when Eleanor Sutter assumed charge of the post. [7] : 2
Going back to the U.S. after his tenure in Slovakia in 1993,Hacker taught at the Air Command and Staff College (ACSC) at Maxwell Air Force Base,Alabama. [6] He had once worked for the Office of High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (OHR) under Carl Bildt (later Prime Minister of Sweden) after the end of the Bosnian War,and was stationed at Tuzla. [2]
In 1999,he took up his post at the U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou as Economic Section Chief, [8] Deputy Principal Officer,and acting Consul General [5] until 2000,when John J. Norris assumed his office as the new Consul General there. [9] He then served as a Cultural Officer at the U.S. Embassy Kyiv, [10] retiring from the foreign service in 2003. [6] After his retirement,he has worked as translator and editor from Finnish,Swedish,Czech,Slovak,Polish,and Russian. He also taught a course on diplomacy in 1994 at the Florida International University (FIU) in Miami and also one course on the same subject in 2003 at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy [College].
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