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U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg Bruce I. Turner

U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg Bruce Turner. (State Dept.)

U.S. Consul General in St. Petersburg Bruce Turner. (State Dept.)

Bruce Turner, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, arrived in October 2011 as Consul General to St. Petersburg. He came to Russia from Afghanistan, where he was Director of the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, managing major programs in justice, corrections, and counternarcotics.

Previously Mr. Turner served as Director of the European and Eurasian Bureau’s Office of Security and Political Affairs (EUR/RPM) in the State Department, where he was responsible for NATO, the OSCE, NATO-Russia relations, and conventional arms control. Other previous assignments included tours abroad in Paris, Moscow, Vienna at the U.S. Mission to the OSCE, Brussels at the U.S. Mission to NATO, and Ankara. In Washington he has worked on North Korean as well as German and Turkish affairs.

Mr. Turner is fluent in German and French, in addition to speaking Russian. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in German literature from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia and a B.A. from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He grew up in Denver, Colorado. He is married to the former Véronique Bertheau and has two grown children.