Riina Kionka

Riina Ruth Kionka (born 29 December 1960) is an American-born Estonian diplomat who is the EU Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

[2] After completing her school education in Detroit, she studied international relations and German literature at James Madison College, graduating in 1983.

[3] In 1996, together with her husband Lauri Lepik, a diplomat, Kionka returned to the United States, where she completed her PhD on Estonian politics, while raising two children.

[4] After a brief spell back at the ministry in Tallinn, in 2000 Kionka was appointed Ambassador of Estonia to Germany in Berlin, where she remained until August 2004.

In 2007, she became Javier Solana's special representative on human rights, and in 2014 she joined Donald Tusk's cabinet as chief foreign policy adviser.