David Holmes

David Holmes is an American diplomat who served as a counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine circa 2019-2020. He is at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service as Senior State Department Fellow, as of 2022. Holmes testified in public and closed-door hearings before the House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs committees in November 2019 as part of the Trump impeachment inquiry after the Trump–Ukraine scandal. Education Holmes completed his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in Claremont, California, where he was the president of the Associated Students of Pomona College. He completed graduate degrees in international affairs at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and in 2002 at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Career Holmes joined the United States Foreign Service in 2002. He served in several international assignments, including Kosovo, Bogota, Kabul, and New Delhi. On his return to the U.S., Holmes served in Washington, D.C., from 2010 to 2011 as special assistant for South and Central Asia to then Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William J. Burns. He was later detailed, from 2011 to 2012, to the United States National Security Council staff at the White House as director for Afghanistan. He then became the senior energy officer at the United States Embassy in Moscow, and then as deputy and internal unit chief in the Political Section.