Matthew Bryza (also North America) is former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia.  Early in his US Foreign Service career he also served in Poland and Russia, as well as on the National Security Council Staff at the White House. He was the Director of the International Centre for Defense Studies in Estonia during 2012-2015. He now heads a Turkish-Finnish environmental solutions company, has a strategic consultancy in Istanbul, and is a board member of energy companies in Turkey and the UK.