{{Short description|American diplomat (1948–2024)}} '''Michael E. Malinowski''' (November 14, 1948 – August 22, 2024) was a member of the Senior United States Foreign Service, and was the U.S. Ambassador to Nepal from December 2001 to April 2004.<ref name="Archive" /> He was also Chargé d'Affaires ad interim in the Philippines from July 2000 until September 2001.<ref name="OotH">{{cite web |title=Michael E. Malinowski |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/malinowski-michael-e |website=Office of the Historian |accessdate=27 January 2020}}</ref> Before he joined the Foreign Service he worked as a social worker and teacher<ref name="Archive">{{cite web |title=Michael E. Malinowski |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/outofdate/bios/m/7238.htm |website=US State Department Archive |accessdate=27 January 2020}}</ref> which allowed him to pay for his education at Loyola University Chicago.<ref name="Jon">{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Jon |title=Ambassador makes friends in high places |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2003-11-04-0311040279-story.html |accessdate=27 January 2020 |publisher=Chicago Tribune |date=November 4, 2003}}</ref>
Malinowski was the US Consul in Kabul at the time of Ambassador Spike Dubs's murder, and was one of the people to rush to the hotel where he was being held after his kidnapping and before his death.<ref name="Dubs">{{cite news |title=A 40-year-old murder mystery: the death of a US ambassador |url=https://m.cnn.com/en/article/h_00809ec7b03940392988a01faab9aa70 |accessdate=27 January 2020 |publisher=CNN |date=February 13, 2019}}</ref>
Malinowski died on August 22, 2024, at the age of 75.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/fsj-2024-11-november.pdf|title=In Memory|work=The Foreign Service Journal|date=November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title=Former US Ambassador to Nepal Michael E. Malinowski passes away | website=Ratopati | date=27 August 2024 | url=https://english.ratopati.com/story/34002 }}</ref>
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