1. Since late 2018 Popadiuk has been the president of the Diplomacy Center Foundation which oversees the development of the National Museum of American Diplomacy.
10 Facts About Roman Popadiuk
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Roman Popadiuk was born on May 30,1950, in a DP camp in Austria to Ukrainian parents brought to Germany as forced laborers.
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Roman Popadiuk was an adjunct lecturer in Political Science at Brooklyn College in New York City.
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Roman Popadiuk joined the United States Foreign Service in 1981.
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In 2012, Roman Popadiuk became a member of the US-Ukraine Energy Task Force of the Ukraine 2020 Policy Dialogue, a forum co-sponsored by the US Embassy in Ukraine and the US-Ukraine Foundation in Washington, DC, aimed at strengthening US-Ukraine relations and Ukraine's integration into Europe.
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On 24 October 2018, Roman Popadiuk replaced Thomas E McNamara as the President of the Diplomacy Center Foundation, formerly the Foreign Affairs Museum Council, the private partner in a public private partnership with the United States Department of State to design, build and complete a museum on American diplomacy, National Museum of American Diplomacy.
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Roman Popadiuk has served on the DCF Board for five years prior to taking over the role of the President in 2018.
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Roman Popadiuk has received a number of awards, including the United States Department of State Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards.
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Roman Popadiuk is married to Judith Ann Fedkiw, and they have four children, Gregory, Matthew, Catherine and Mary.
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Roman Popadiuk has published two books and numerous articles in, among others, The Ukrainian Quarterly, The Foreign Service Journal, Mediterranean Quarterly, and Presidential Studies Quarterly.