Richard Green Lugar KBE was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from 1977 to 2013. He was a member of the Republican Party.
Victoria Anne Kennedy is an American diplomat,attorney,and activist who has served as the United States Ambassador to Austria since 2022. She is the widow and the second wife of longtime U.S. senator Ted Kennedy.
William Earl Kennard is an American attorney and former government official. Kennard served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton,and was the first African American to lead the agency. In 2009,Kennard was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Ambassador to the European Union,serving until 2013.
Jacob Joseph Lew is an American attorney and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Israel. He was the seventy-sixth United States secretary of the treasury from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party,he also served as the twenty-fifth White House chief of staff from 2012 to 2013 and as director of the Office of Management and Budget in both the Clinton administration and Obama administration.
Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
Mark William Lippert is an American diplomat who worked as the vice president for international affairs at Boeing from 2017 to 2020. In 2022,he was appointed Executive Vice President of Samsung Electronics America. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to South Korea from 2014 to 2017. Prior to his tour as an ambassador,Lippert had served as Chief of Staff for Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel,Chief of Staff for the National Security Council,and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs in the Department of Defense. On March 5,2015,he was attacked by a man wielding a knife in South Korea.
Michael Braverman Goodman Froman is an American lawyer who is the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations. Froman served as the U.S. Trade Representative from 2013 to 2017. He was Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs,a position held jointly at the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that position he served as the United States sherpa to the G7,G8,and G20 summits of economic powers. On May 2,2013,President Barack Obama nominated him to succeed Ambassador Ron Kirk as the U.S. Trade Representative. He was confirmed on June 19,2013.
Mark Henry Gitenstein is an American lawyer and diplomat who is serving as the United States ambassador to the European Union since 2022. He was nominated by President Joe Biden on July 27,2021,and confirmed by the United States Senate on December 18,2021. He formerly served as the United States ambassador to Romania from 2009 to 2012;he was nominated by President Barack Obama on June 11,2009 and confirmed by the Senate on July 8,2009.
Patrick Hubert Gaspard is an American former diplomat who serves as president of Center for American Progress (CAP),a liberal think tank.
Morrell John Berry is an American former government official who was named President of the American Australian Association in 2016. Berry was director of the United States Office of Personnel Management from 2009 to 2013 and United States Ambassador to Australia from 2013 to 2016.
Matthew Winthrop Barzun is an American businessman,diplomat and political fundraiser who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He is a business executive who is known for his work with CNET Networks and for his fundraising work on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He served as United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2009 to 2011. He was selected by President Barack Obama as National Finance Chair for the president's 2012 re-election campaign. He is author of The Power of Giving Away Power from Optimism Press,an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Jeffrey Dunston Zients is an American business executive and government official,serving as the 31st White House chief of staff in the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden. Earlier in the Biden administration,he served as counselor to the president and White House coronavirus response coordinator from January 2021 to April 2022.
John Victor Roos is an American businessman,attorney,and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Japan from 2009 to 2013. He is the Founding Partner of Geodesic Capital. Before accepting the ambassadorship from President Barack Obama,Roos was the CEO of Silicon Valley-based law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati.
Miguel Humberto Díaz is an American theologian,diplomat and commentator who served as United States Ambassador to the Holy See. He was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 5,2009. He resigned on November 5,2012,and was immediately named University Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Dayton. He was the first Hispanic U.S. Ambassador accredited to the Holy See.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
Anthony Luzzatto Gardner was the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union. He was sworn in on February 18,2014,and left his post on January 20,2017.
The United States Mission to the European Union (USEU) is the diplomatic mission of the United States to the European Union;it is based in Brussels,Belgium. The US has maintained diplomatic relations with the EU and its predecessors since 1953. The first predecessor of the current mission was the US diplomatic mission to the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg,which opened in 1956. In 1961,the US Mission to the European Communities was established in Brussels,which later became the United States Mission to the European Union,upon the latter's establishment in 1993.
Azita Raji was an Iranian-born American diplomat,banker,and philanthropist. She was nominated by President Barack Obama in October 2014 to serve as the United States ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden,and confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate in February 2016. She presented her credentials to King Carl XVI Gustaf on March 15,2016,and completed her tour of duty on January 20,2017.
Andrew H. Schapiro is an American attorney and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from September 30,2014,to January 20,2017. He was nominated by President Barack Obama March 6,2014 and confirmed by the Senate in July 2014. He was sworn in on August 14,2014,and presented his credentials to President MilošZeman on September 30,2014. He is currently a partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan.
