Jim Rosapepe

Jim Rosapepe served as the US Ambassador to Romania from 1998-2001. The New York Times described him as ""vigorous and omnipresent (as) American Ambassador". From 2001-2006, he served on the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, and since, 2007, in the Maryland State Senate. He currently heads an investment firm active in the US and Europe and serves the boards of several funds investing in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. He has written about economic and security issues in Europe in The Wall Street Journal, The Baltimore Sun and The Harvard International Review. With his wife, former ABC news correspondent Sheilah Kast, he is the co-author of “Dracula Is Dead: How Romanians Survived Communism, Ended it, and Emerged as the New Italy Since 1989”, a travel literature book.