John F. Tefft is an American diplomat who has served as a Foreign Service Officer since 1972. He was confirmed as the United States Ambassador to Russia on July 31,2014. He had previously served as the United States' ambassador to Ukraine,Georgia,and Lithuania.
Michele Jeanne Sison is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service serving as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She has previously served in various other diplomatic posts around the world on behalf of the United States,including ambassador to Haiti. Sison holds the personal rank of Career Ambassador.
Francis Joseph Ricciardone Jr. is a former President of the American University in Cairo. Ambassador Ricciardone was the United States ambassador to Turkey between 2011 and 2014. Previously he was Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan. He was also on leave from the U.S. Department of State as a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt (2005–2008),the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau (2002–2005). As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,he received U.S. government and other organization awards for his work in foreign policy and program management,political reporting and analysis,and peacekeeping.
Robert Stephen "Steve" Beecroft is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt from December 2014 to June 2017. He previously served as United States Ambassador to Iraq and United States Ambassador to Jordan.
Jo Ellen Powell is a career member of the United States Foreign Service who served as Consul General in Frankfurt,Germany and was nominated as the US ambassador to Mauritania by Barack Obama on July 15,2010. She has been known in Frankfurt for her active engagement with Germany's Muslim community,as well as with students,through the "Windows on America" program. Prior to that Powell was the executive director of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs,director of the Office of Employee Relations,and management counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra,Australia. Powell has also served in France,Italy,Lebanon,and Jordan. She is married to Stephen Engelken,also a career diplomat and current deputy chief of mission to Islamabad in Pakistan,with whom she has a son.
Paul Wayne Jones is an American diplomat who was the United States Chargéd'affaires to Pakistan and the former United States Ambassador to Poland. Prior to that,he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State and earlier he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia. He arrived in Warsaw,Poland,and began serving as Ambassador on September 24,2015. He is widely regarded as one of the Foreign Service's only senior experts on both Europe and East Asia.
Donald Lu is a United States diplomat serving as Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs since 2021. He previously served as both the United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan from 2018 to 2021 and the United States Ambassador to Albania from 2015 to 2018
John A. Heffern is an American diplomat. Heffern served as the United States Ambassador to Armenia from 2011 to 2014. After being nominated on May 18,2011 by United States President Barack Obama,Heffern was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 26,2011 and sworn in as Ambassador on October 6,2011. He was replaced by Ambassador Richard M. Mills Jr. in early 2015.
Geeta Pasi is a retired American diplomat. She was the American ambassador to Djibouti from 2011 to 2014. She was appointed American ambassador to Chad in June 2016 and served until 2018. In September 2018,she left the ambassadorship to become Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
Richard Gustave Olson Jr. is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer,who formerly served as the United States Ambassador to Pakistan. Prior to his appointment in Pakistan,Olson had served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates as well the Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs in the U.S. Embassy,Kabul with the rank of ambassador. He is a career member of the Foreign Service,class of Career Minister.
Matthew H. Tueller is an American diplomat who formerly served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq. A career United States Foreign Service officer,he served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen as well.
Tulinabo Salama Mushingi is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Angola and the United States ambassador to São Toméand Príncipe since 2022. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Burkina Faso from 2013 to 2016,and a joint appointment as United States ambassador to Senegal and United States ambassador to Guinea-Bissau from 2017 to 2022. He also served in the executive offices of Secretaries of State John F. Kerry and Hillary Clinton.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat who serves as the United States deputy ambassador to the United Nations. He served as the U.S. Chargéd'Affaires and Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations between January 20,2021,and February 24,2021,when Linda Thomas-Greenfield became ambassador. In July 2022,he was announced as the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Nigeria.
Todd Crawford Chapman is an American career diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Brazil and the United States Ambassador to Ecuador.
Joan A. Polaschik is a diplomat who has served as Director of the Foreign Service Institute since 2022. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2014 to 2017.
Lucy Tamlyn is an American diplomat serving was the chargéd'affaires to Sudan after being appointed by Secretary Antony Blinken in January 2022. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Benin from 2015 to 2018 and as United States ambassador to the Central African Republic from 2019 to 2022. In June 2022,President Joe Biden nominated Tamlyn to serve as the United States ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Virginia Evelyn Palmer is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Ghana since 2022. Palmer is the former United States ambassador to Malawi. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate,beginning the assignment in January 2015.
Alexander Mark Laskaris is an American diplomat who serves as the United States ambassador to Chad since August 2022. He also served as the United States ambassador to Guinea from 2012 to 2015. Laskaris was the faculty leader in the National War College at the National Defense University.
Robert Stuart Gilchrist is an American diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Lithuania since 2019. He is a career Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Minister Counselor. He was appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20,2019. Gilchrist was the fifth US Ambassador from the LGBT community nominated to serve by the Trump administration.
Douglas A. Silliman is the president of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington and a former American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Kuwait (2014-16) and Iraq (2016-19).
