Ambassadors of the United States are persons nominated by the president to serve as the United States' diplomatic representatives to foreign nations,international organizations,and as ambassadors-at-large. Under Article II,Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution,their appointment must be confirmed by the United States Senate;while an ambassador may be appointed during a recess,they can serve only until the end of the next session of Congress,unless subsequently confirmed.
Diplomatic rank is a system of professional and social rank used in the world of diplomacy and international relations. A diplomat's rank determines many ceremonial details,such as the order of precedence at official processions,table seatings at state dinners,the person to whom diplomatic credentials should be presented,and the title by which the diplomat should be addressed.
John F. Tefft is an American diplomat who has served as a Foreign Service Officer since 1972. He was the United States Ambassador to Russia between July 31,2014 and September 28,2017. He had previously served as the United States' ambassador to Ukraine,Georgia,and Lithuania.
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.
William Clyde Trueheart was a diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Nigeria from 1969–1971,and as the acting U.S. Ambassador and chargéd'affaires in South Vietnam from May–July 1963.
Elbridge Durbrow was a Foreign Service officer and diplomat who served as the Counselor of Embassy and Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow in the late 1940s and then as the US ambassador to South Vietnam from March 14,1957,to April 16,1961. He supported the Diem regime until late 1960,when he reported that the situation was deteriorating and that unless steps were taken to reform the government,Diem would be likely overthrown in a coup,or lose the country to the Viet Cong. Diem and his American supporters worked to get Durbrow transferred,and he was recalled by President John F. Kennedy in 1961,and sent to a diplomatic role with NATO in Europe.
Richard Boyce Norland is an American diplomat. He has served as the United States Ambassador to Libya.
Timothy Michael Carney is a retired American diplomat and consultant. Carney served as a career Foreign Service Officer for 32 years,with assignments that included Vietnam and Cambodia as well as Lesotho and South Africa before being appointed as ambassador to Sudan and later in Haiti. Carney served with a number of U.N. Peacekeeping Missions,and until recently led the Haiti Democracy Project,an initiative launched under the presidency of George W. Bush to build stronger institutional foundations for the country's long-term relationship with the United States.
Earl Anthony Wayne is an American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs,Ambassador to Argentina and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan,Wayne served nearly four years as Ambassador to Mexico. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August,2011. He departed Mexico City for Washington July 31,2015 and retired from the State Department on September 30,2015. Wayne attained the highest rank in the U.S. diplomatic service:Career Ambassador. He is currently a Professorial Lecturer and Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University's School of International Service where he teaches courses related to diplomacy and US foreign policy. Wayne also works with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,the Atlantic Council,the Center for Strategic and International Studies,. Wayne is co-chair of the Mexico Institute's Advisory Board at the Wilson Center. He is also on the board of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Public Diplomacy Council of America. Wayne is an independent consultant,speaker and writer and works with several not-for-profit professional associations. He was an adviser for HSBC Latin America on improving management of financial crime risk from 2015 until 2019 and served on the board of the American Foreign Service Association from 2017 to 2019.
George Southall Vest was an American diplomat and State Department official. He served as United States ambassador to the European Community from 1981 to 1985.
Edwin McCammon Martin was an American economist and diplomat. He worked for the United States government from 1935 to 1975,first as an economist,then on the mobilization of the U.S. economy for World War II and finally as a diplomat both domestically and abroad.
Donald Richard Norland was an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Botswana,Swaziland,Lesotho,and Chad.
The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang,Beijing.
Jeffrey DeLaurentis is an American diplomat who served as the Chargéd'affaires ad interim of the Embassy of the United States,Havana from 2015 to 2017 and is currently serving as the acting U.S. ambassador for special political affairs.
Atul Keshap is a retired American diplomat and career United States Foreign Service Officer from Virginia who serves at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as the President of the U.S.- India Business Council since January 2022. He also serves as Senior Vice President for South Asia and as President of the U.S.-Bangladesh Business Council. Previously,he served as the Chargéd'affaires of the United States mission to India in 2021. He formerly served as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the United States Department of State. In 2022,Ambassador Keshap was elected into membership of the American Academy of Diplomacy. In May 2023,Keshap was named one of Washington's most influential foreign policy influencers for his work to shape U.S. relations with India.
Galen Luther Stone was an American diplomat for the United States Department of State. He served as United States ambassador to Cyprus from 1978 to 1981.
Todd Crawford Chapman is an American career diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Brazil from 2020 to 2021 and as the United States ambassador to Ecuador from 2016 to 2019.
Yitzhak Eldan was born on October 30,1943. He is an Israeli diplomat as well as a former Israeli Ambassador. He has served,among other postings,as the Israeli Ambassador to Denmark,to the Council of Europe and UNESCO,as well as Head of State Protocol for Israel and Director of the Israeli Diplomatic school. In 2011,he founded The Ambassadors’Club of Israel and continues to serve as its President. In addition,since 2013 he has been directing The Israeli School for Young Ambassadors. Senior Lecturer on Diplomacy,Hebrew University,Jerusalem.
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