Ambassador Richard (Rick) Holtzapple, Career Diplomat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United States, took office of the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina 14. August 2025. Years.
The Holtzapple Ambassador Radio was as a deputy permanent representative of the United States in NATO in Brussels, Belgium, from 2021. until 2024. years. He previously worked as Deputy Chief of the Mission and Chargers at the Ambassades of the United States in Benin, where he managed the work of the team of 300 people and worked on the implementation of US Help.
The Holtzapple Ambassador has a significant diplomatic experience in Southeast Europe, which dates from the first diplomatic task (since 1992) in the United States of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Srem (UNTAES) in the period 1996. until 1997. years. He also worked as a senior manager of the Program for Kosovo and Montenegro in the National Democratic Institute and on two occasions as a director for the Balkans at the National Security Council in the White House.
In Washington, among other things, he managed the operations for the OSCE and NATO at the United States Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Union Office, and was one of the lecturers of the University of National Defense, where he taught economics and strategic thinking. He also performed other duties abroad, in Kinshas, Djibouti and Paris.
Ambassador Holtzapple has a master’s degree in the field of international relations and the international economies of advanced international studies at Johns Hopkins, Washington, while graduating in the field of international relations at Stanford University in California. He speaks English, Croatian and French. He is married and the father of two adult children.
