Cesar Beltran served 35 years with the State Department and U.S. Information Agency, completing his career as a member of the Senior Foreign Service (rank of Career Counselor). A veteran public affairs and communications manager, with expertise dealing at the highest levels of government, academia and business, he has held Embassy Counselor positions in Budapest, Warsaw, Santo Domingo and Moscow.
During the course of his career he directed the Public Affairs Offices at Embassies Warsaw and Budapest, including during Poland’s successful entry into NATO, as well as a succession of VIP visitors, notably First Lady Hillary Clinton in 2000 and President George W. Bush in 2001, 2005 and 2006. In his tour in Hispaniola he developed public affairs strategies for the United States in dealing with the Dominican presidential elections of 1994 and 1996 and provided public affairs support on Haiti during the 1993 international embargo and the subsequent return of the Aristide government. In the Soviet Union he managed all official cultural activities and exchanges between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (1990-91) and Russia (1992-93), including the creation of the first American Information and Cultural Center in Moscow. Additionally, he prepared strategic plans for the expansion of educational exchanges and cultural programs for all fifteen Newly Independent States. In 1997 Mr. Beltran took a leave of absence from the Foreign Service to direct a due diligence project for the purchase and privatization of electronics manufacturing facilities in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Currently residing in Conneticut, Mr. Beltran is a lecturer on Communications and International Relations at the Eastern Conneticut State University ; serves as a counselor for a number of bilateral educational institutions; and advises America’s largest producer of small wind turbines, Southwest Windpower. He holds an M.A. from George Washington University and a B.A. from California State University, Chico. He is married to the writer and artist Victoria Woodruff Northrop.
