A diplomat is a person appointed by a state or an intergovernmental institution such as the United Nations or the European Union to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.
Charles Woodruff Yost was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.
Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change (DMCC) was an ad hoc organization of 27 retired and United States military officers and Foreign Service Officers who supported Democratic U.S. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts against incumbent Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
Diplomatic service is the body of diplomats and foreign policy officers maintained by the government of a country to communicate with the governments of other countries. Diplomatic personnel obtains diplomatic immunity when they are accredited to other countries. Diplomatic services are often part of the larger civil service and sometimes a constituent part of the foreign ministry.
Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments,he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who is the 13th and current United States Ambassador to China since 2022. Burns is a professor of diplomacy and international politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a member of the Board of Directors of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is director of the Aspen Strategy Group,senior counselor at The Cohen Group,and serves on the board of directors of Entegris,Inc.
Donald Boyd Easum was an American diplomat.
Carey Edward Cavanaugh is a former U.S. Ambassador/peace mediator who is currently a professor of diplomacy at the University of Kentucky and chairman of International Alert,a London-based independent peacebuilding organization.
Samuel Winfield Lewis was an American diplomat. During a lengthy career with the United States Department of State,he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1975–1977),U.S. ambassador to Israel (1977–1985) and Director of Policy Planning (1993–1994). As ambassador to Israel,Lewis played a major part in brokering the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. He also headed the United States Institute of Peace from 1987 through 1993.
Robert Vossler Keeley had a 34-year career in the Foreign Service of the United States,from 1956 to 1989. He served three times as Ambassador:to Greece (1985–89),Zimbabwe (1980–84),and Mauritius (1976–78). In 1978–80 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,in charge of southern and eastern Africa.
William Caldwell Harrop is an American diplomat. Harrop served for 39 years as a Foreign Service Officer,with postings as United States ambassador to Guinea,Kenya and the Seychelles,the Congo (Kinshasa),and Israel.
Chester Arthur Crocker is an American diplomat and scholar who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from June 9,1981,to April 21,1989,in the Reagan administration. Crocker,architect of the U.S. policy of "constructive engagement" towards Southern Africa including apartheid-era South Africa,is credited with setting the terms of Namibian independence.
Marie Louise"Masha" Yovanovitch is a Canadian-American diplomat and senior member of the United States Foreign Service. She served in multiple State Department posts,including Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (2004–2005),U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan (2005–2008),U.S. Ambassador to Armenia (2008–2011),Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs (2012–2013),and Ambassador to Ukraine (2016–2019). Yovanovitch is a diplomat in residence at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. On January 31,2020 it was reported that she had retired from the State Department.
Henry Allen Holmes was the United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1982 to 1985 and a career diplomat.
Viron Peter Vaky was an American diplomat who was United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (1972–74),Colombia (1974–76),and Venezuela (1976). He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.
Richard Boyce Norland is an American diplomat. He currently serves as the United States Ambassador to Libya.
Diplomacy refers to spoken or written speech acts by representatives of states intended to influence events in the international system.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University,in Medford,Massachusetts. The School is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations and is well-ranked in its masters and doctoral programs. As of 2017,the student body numbered around 230,of whom 36 percent were international students from 70 countries,and around a quarter were U.S. minorities. The school's alumni network numbers over 9,500 in 160 countries,and includes ambassadors,diplomats,foreign ministers,high-ranking military officers,heads of nonprofit organizations,and corporate executives.
The Georgetown Leadership Seminar (GLS) is an annual gathering of selected rising leaders from around the world for a week of intensive discussion on major international issues. The program was established in 1982 by Georgetown University in order to promote dialogue among individuals who would shape the futures of their countries. GLS attracts individuals from government,corporations,law firms,financial institutions,the military,international organizations,NGOs,the media,universities,think tanks,and elsewhere who occupy positions of influence and have the potential to move up to greater leadership roles. The selected participants are then exposed to the major global issues and the Washington foreign policy-making process through direct contact with top level policy makers and experts. The program is derived from Harvard’s “international seminar”conducted by Henry Kissinger in the 1950s and 1960s. The GLS is now administered by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. Original committee members included Zbigniew Brzezinski,Madeleine Albright,Henry Kissinger,and Peter F. Krogh.
Mark C. Storella,a graduate of the Roxbury Latin School,Harvard College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,is Dean of the Leadership and Management School at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) as of May 28,2019. Storella was U.S. Ambassador to Zambia from 2010 to 2013.
