The US senate has confirmed the nomination of James B. Warlick, Jr., of Virginia, to be US ambassador to Bulgaria, a US embassy statement said on December 29 2009.
 
Warlick served as principal deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of International Organisation Affairs (IO) from 2006 to 2009, with responsibility for all aspects of US foreign policy at the United Nations and a number of other multilateral organisations.
 
Immediately before that assignment, he was director of the Office of European Security and Political Affairs, responsible for political-military and security issues for Europe and the former Soviet Union, including NATO, OSCE, and related arms control and nonproliferation policy issues (2005-2006).
 
While director of the UN Political Affairs in IO during 2003-2005, Warlick also served as principal adviser to ambassador L. Paul Bremer during January 2004 to July 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq.
 
Other assignments have included: consul general, US embassy in Moscow; director, for Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the European Affairs Bureau; acting minister-counselor/ deputy counselor for political affairs, US embassy, Germany; special assistant to the secretary of state; operations center watch officer; consular officer, Philippines; and political officer, Bangladesh.
 
Prior to his state department service Warlick served as deputy representative of the Asia Foundation in Washington and the Philippines; and he was a foreign affairs analyst in the congressional research service at the library of congress.
 
Warlick is a graduate of Stanford University (1977), holds a Master of Letters in Politics from Wadham College (1979), Oxford University, and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (1980) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.