Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who serves as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
David Michael Satterfield is an American diplomat and U.S. Ambassador,who has served extensively in the Middle East,including the Persian Gulf area,Lebanon,and Iraq. He later served as a Senior Advisor on Iraq for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and was Director General of the Multinational Force and Observers,the peacekeeping force for the Sinai Peninsula from June 2009 until August 2017. He was chargéd'affaires to Egypt from August 2013 to January 2014 and was subsequently Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for Libya. From September 2017 to June 2019 he served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs,and was confirmed as US ambassador to Turkey on June 27,2019.
Jeffrey David Feltman is an American diplomat and former U.S. Special Envoy for Horn of Africa,serving from April 23,2021 to January 10,2022. He previously served as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. As head of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs Feltman oversaw the UN's diplomatic efforts to prevent and mitigate conflict worldwide.
William Joseph Burns is an American diplomat serving as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Biden administration since March 19,2021. He previously served as the United States deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014,and in 2009 he served as Acting Secretary of State before the Senate confirmation of Hillary Clinton. He retired from the United States Foreign Service in 2014 after a 32-year diplomatic career. From 2014 to 2021,he served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Alan John Blinken is an American businessman,political candidate,and former diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Belgium from 1993 to 1997. Blinken was also the Democratic nominee in the 2002 United States Senate election in Idaho,losing to incumbent Larry Craig.
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.
Mary Ann Casey is an American retired diplomat who was a career Foreign Service Officer and U.S. Ambassador to Algeria (1991–1994) and Tunisia (1994–1997).
Yang Jiechi is a Chinese senior diplomat and politician who served as Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission,highest diplomatic position in the country,between 2013 and 2022. He also served as a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party between 2017 and 2022.
Philip Thomas Reeker is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer with the Department of State who currently serves as the senior advisor for Caucasus negotiations. He was previously Chargéd'affaires of the United States mission to the United Kingdom from 2021 to 2022 and acting assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2019 to 2021.
John Joseph Sullivan is an American attorney and government official who served as the United States Ambassador to Russia from 2020 to 2022,and who previously served as the 19th United States Deputy Secretary of State from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,Sullivan served as Acting United States Secretary of State from April 1,2018,to April 26,2018,following President Donald Trump's dismissal of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on March 13,2018,until Tillerson's official successor,Mike Pompeo,was sworn in. Tillerson did not officially leave office until March 31,2018. Sullivan,however,was delegated all responsibilities of the Secretary of State beginning March 13.
Evan Maureen Ryan is an American public servant currently serving as White House Cabinet Secretary in the administration of Joe Biden. She previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) in the Obama Administration (2013–2017) and was assistant for intergovernmental affairs and public liaison for then-Vice President Joe Biden.
Antony John Blinken is an American government official and diplomat serving as the 71st United States secretary of state since January 26,2021. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.
Michael A. Hammer is an American diplomat who is currently serving as the United States Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa. A career member of the United State foreign service,Hammer previously served as the United States ambassador to Chile from 2014 to 2016 and the United States ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2018 to 2022.
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.
Donald Mayer Blinken was an American businessman and diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary from 1994 to 1997. His son,Antony Blinken,is the current Secretary of State to United States President Joe Biden.
Uzra Zeya is an American diplomat who has served as the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security,Democracy,and Human Rights in the Biden Administration since July 2021.
The foreign policy of the Joe Biden administration emphasizes repairing the U.S.'s alliances,which Biden says had been damaged under the Trump administration,and returning the U.S. to a "position of trusted leadership" among world democracies to counter challenges from Russia and China. As president,Biden has sought to strengthen the transatlantic alliance between the U.S. and Europe,and he recommitted the U.S. to the NATO alliance and collective security. Biden returned the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement and has taken other steps to combat climate change. His administration emphasizes international cooperation to combat the COVID-19 pandemic,as well as U.S. defenses against foreign-sponsored cyberattacks and cyberespionage.
