Norman Thatcher Scharpf is Deputy Chief of Mission of the American Embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia, since July 2012. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director of the Office of Global Systems in the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs, where he led a 15-person team responsible for the implementation of U.S. policy in the multilateral technical and specialized agencies of the United Nations, working through U.S. missions to the UN in Geneva, Vienna, Montreal, and Nairobi.