US President Donald Trump has nominated Keith Noreika, a lawyer specialising in financial regulation, to serve as the next American ambassador to Lithuania, sending his nomination to the Senate for confirmation.
Noreika is not a career diplomat. Since 2022 he has served as executive deputy president and chairman of the Banking Supervision and Regulation Group at Patomak Global Partners, a Washington-based financial services consultancy.
In 2017, he spent seven months as acting Comptroller of the Currency – the federal official responsible for overseeing US national banks – appointed by then President Donald Trump as a "special government employee". Prior to that role, he worked at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he represented a range of banks, some of which fell under the remit of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. That same year he gave a keynote address at a fintech conference in Vilnius, and has confirmed having Lithuanian ancestry.
If confirmed, he would succeed Kara McDonald, who was nominated by former President Joe Biden and has held the post since 2024.
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