Excellency is an honorific style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state,officials of an international organization,or members of an aristocracy. Once entitled to the title "Excellency",the holder usually retains the right to that courtesy throughout their lifetime,although in some cases the title is attached to a particular office and is held only during tenure of that office.
Elena Poptodorova is a Bulgarian politician and diplomat,who has served two times as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bulgaria to the United States.
The Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a government department of Greece,headed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The ministry has its headquarters in Athens.
Salome Zourabichvili is a French-Georgian politician and former diplomat,currently serving as the fifth president of Georgia,in office since December 2018. She is the first woman to be elected as Georgia's president,a position she will occupy for a term of six years. As a result of constitutional changes coming into effect in 2024,Zourabichvili is expected to be Georgia's last popularly elected president;future heads of state are to be elected indirectly by a parliamentary college of electors.
Herro Kader Mustafa Garg is a Kurdish-American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Egypt since November 2023. She served as the United States ambassador to Bulgaria from October 2019 to March 2023.
Natalia Gherman is a Moldovan politician who has been serving as executive director of the United Nations' Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate since 2023.
Manuel Sager is a Swiss diplomat who served as the Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States from 2010 to 2014. He was appointed to the position in December 2010.
Kelly Ann Keiderling-Franz is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Uruguay from 2016 to 2019 and has served as Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova since 2022.
Pauline Tallen OFR is a Nigerian politician who served as the Minister for Women Affairs and Social Development from 2019 to 2023. She was appointed in 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari after turning down an ambassadorial nomination in 2015 on the grounds that she was not consulted prior to the announcement of the appointment and that she would not accept the offer for equal distribution of power among the three senatorial districts of her native state of plateau because she is from same local government as Governor Simon Lalong.
Anne Meskanen is a Finnish diplomat. In 2024,she is Head of Mission at Finland’s Embassy in Beirut.
Emily Margarethe Haber is a German diplomat. She served as State Secretary from 2011 to 2018:from 2011 to 2013,at the Federal Foreign Office and from 2014 to 2018,at the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
Kristina A. Kvien is an American diplomat who has served as United States ambassador to Armenia since February 2023. She previously served as United States chargéd’affaires to Ukraine from May to June 2019 and from January 2020 to May 2022. From June 2019 to January 2020,she was deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of the United States in Kyiv.
Sharon L. Cromer is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Gambia since March 2022.
Tihomir Stoytchev is a Bulgarian diplomat,who has served as Bulgaria's Ambassador to the United States. He is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Pascale Baeriswyl is a Swiss diplomat,Ambassador and currently Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations (UN) in New York. She was the first woman to hold the post of State Secretary of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) and has headed the Swiss Mission to the UN in New York since June 2020. From January 2023 to December 2024,Baeriswyl will represent Switzerland on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC),during the country's first ever term as an elected member of the council.
Frances Collins is an Irish diplomat and is the Ambassador of Ireland to the Holy See,the second woman to hold the position.
Ayşegül Kandaş is a Turkish diplomat and the incumbent Turkey ambassador to Pretoria,Lesotho and Eswatini.
Lone Dencker Wisborg is a Danish diplomat,lawyer and civil servant. She is the current Permanent Representative of Denmark to NATO,having previously served as Ambassador of Denmark to the United States,from 2019 to 2022,the first woman to hold that position.
Liselotte Ellegaard Kjærsgaard Plesner is a Danish diplomat and civil servant. She is the current Ambassador of Denmark to Saudi Arabia,concurrently serving as ambassador to Kuwait,Bahrain,Oman and Yemen,and having previously served as Permanent Representative of Denmark to NATO,from 2018 to 2022,the first woman to hold that position.
