Melvyn Levitsky

{{Short description|American diplomat}}

{{BLP sources|date=December 2010}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Melvyn Levitsky

| image =

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| order =

| ambassador_from = United States

| country = Bulgaria

| term_start = September 21, 1984

| term_end = February 6, 1987

| president = Ronald Reagan

| predecessor = Robert L. Barry

| successor = Sol Polansky

| ambassador_from2 = United States

| country2 = Brazil

| term_start2 = June 1, 1994

| term_end2 = June 17, 1998

| president2 = Bill Clinton

| predecessor2 = Richard Huntington Melton

| successor2 = Anthony Stephen Harrington

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|03|19}}

| birth_place = Sioux City, Iowa

| spouse =

| party =

| alma_mater = University of Michigan

| profession = Diplomat, Career Ambassador

| religion =

| office3 = 12th Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State

| term_start3 = 1987

| term_end3 = 1989

| preceded3 = Nicholas Platt

| succeeded3 = J. Stapleton Roy

| office4 = 5th Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters

| term_start4 = June 23, 1989

| term_end4 = November 23, 1993

| preceded4 = Ann B. Wrobleski

| succeeded4 = Robert S. Gelbard

}}

Melvyn Levitsky (born March 19, 1938, in Sioux City, Iowa) was a United States diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria (1984–87) and Brazil (1994–98).[http://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/Melvyn_Levitsky Biography], Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Retrieved December 2, 2010.

From 1989 to 1993 he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters.(22 August 1989). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WW8aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8isEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4163,6138683&dq=melvyn-levitsky+narcotics&hl=en Colombia May Have Reached Turning Point], Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Retrieved December 2, 2010. In 2003, he became a board member of the International Narcotics Control Board.[https://web.archive.org/web/20060813111743/http://www.incb.org/incb/en/members_levitsky.html INCB Membership: Melvyn Levitsky], Retrieved December 2, 2010.

He is a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He is also on the advisory board of the [http://globalpanel.org Global Panel Foundation].

Levitsky has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Iowa.