13 Facts About Trevor Traina

Trevor D Traina was born on 1968 and is an American businessman who served as the United States ambassador to Austria from 2018 to 2021.

Trevor Traina's father was a shipping and cruise executive and Napa Valley vintner and art collector.

Trevor Traina has a younger brother Todd, and five younger half-siblings through his father's marriage to Danielle Steel.

Trevor Traina was brother to Steel's son Nick Traina, who was adopted and given the family name by his father.

Trevor Traina attended the Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco and later graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in politics in 1990.

Trevor Traina later studied at the University of Oxford and has Master of Business Administration from the Haas School of Business.

Trevor Traina was an honorary advisor to the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco as well as the Haas School of Business, the Princeton University Art Museum and other institutions.

Trevor Traina risked controversy for supporting the LGBTQ community by flying a rainbow flag at the Embassy during Vienna Pride despite a ban from the State Department on doing so.

Trevor Traina is quoted as having arranged the most high level meetings between Austria and the US in history and bringing about an era of Verbundenheit or "new closeness" between the two countries that had not before been seen.

Trevor Traina is a noted public speaker, having spoken to the Harvard Republican Club in November of 2024.

Trevor Traina has been awarded over two dozen patents from the USPTO.

Trevor Traina's hobby is collecting photographs, an exhibition of his collection in summer 2012 at the Fine Arts Museum was discussed in the media.

Trevor Traina made a major loan of photographs to the Albertina museum in Vienna for the Fall 2021 exhibition American Photography.