Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis served as the U.S. ambassador to Hungary from January 2010 until July 2013. She chairs the California International Trade and Investment Advisory Council and is a senior adviser to the Albright Stonebridge Group. She lives with her husband, veteran journalist Markos Kounalakis, and their two sons in San Francisco.
Author Eleni Kounalakis, former ambassador to Hungary, discusses the country's xenophobic response to the Syrian refugee crisis in an op-ed for the New York Times
