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.
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.
Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) is a title used for many executive positions in the United States Department of State,ranking below the under secretaries. A set of six assistant secretaries reporting to the under secretary for political affairs manage diplomatic missions within their designated geographic regions,plus one assistant secretary dealing with international organizations. Assistant secretaries usually manage individual bureaus of the Department of State. When the manager of a bureau or another agency holds a title other than assistant secretary,such as "director," it can be said to be of "assistant secretary equivalent rank." Assistant secretaries typically have a set of deputies,referred to as deputy assistant secretaries (DAS).
Matthew James Bryza is a former United States diplomat. His last post in the United States foreign service was the United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan.
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.
Richard Eugene Hoagland is a career ambassador in the United States Department of State. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs,2013-2015. In the summer of 2016,based at the U.S. Embassy in Amman,Jordan,he was the senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Russian military base in Latakia,Syria. In 2017 he served as interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,the group appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to coordinate international peacemaking efforts on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Nancy Jo Powell was the United States Ambassador to India from April 2012 to May 2014.
William Braucher Wood is the U.S. Envoy for International Sanctions Implementation at the Department of State. He is a former Ambassador from the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Colombia.
James Franklin Collins is a former United States Ambassador to Russia. A career Foreign Service Officer in the State Department,he is a Russian specialist.
Burton Lynn Pascoe served as Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations at the UN Department of Political Affairs from 2007 to June 2012,where he oversaw the UN's diplomatic efforts to prevent and mitigate conflict around the globe.
Richard Boyce Norland is an American diplomat. He currently serves as the United States Ambassador to Libya.
Philip Thomas Reeker is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer with the Department of State who currently serves as the Chargéd'affaires of the United States mission to the United Kingdom. He was previously Acting Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs,where he oversaw a portfolio of 50 countries,before serving at U.S. European Command (EUCOM) in Stuttgart,Germany,and Foreign Policy Advisor Program (POLAD) from 2017 to May 31,2019. Reeker was also U.S. Consul General in Milan,Italy from September 5,2014,Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2011 through 2013,and as the ambassador to Macedonia from 2008 to 2011.
Ian Crawford Kelly is Ambassador (ret.) in Residence at Northwestern University in Evanston,Illinois. He is an American former statesman and senior foreign service officer who last served as the United States Ambassador to Georgia,from 2015 to 2018. He previously served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 2010 to 2013. Prior to his ambassadorship,Kelly held a variety of high-level roles at the U.S. State Department,including serving as the department spokesman under Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Ambassador Ersin Erçin is a senior Turkish diplomat,with an extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy particularly on matters of international,Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security,disarmament,and economic and environmental security.
Mary Burce Warlick is a Papua New Guinean-born,American diplomat who was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in May 2021. A former United States career diplomat,she served as the United States Ambassador to Serbia from January 2010 to September 2012,as the U.S. Consul General in Melbourne,Australia from October 2012 to July 2014,as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Energy Resources at the Department of State from August 2014 to September 2017,and as Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs from January to September 2017.
Glyn Townsend Davies is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service. On August 5,2015,the U.S. Senate confirmed Davies to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand. His diplomatic career began in 1980. He has served in three ambassadorial-level assignments since 2003,most recently as Special Representative of the U.S. Secretary of State for North Korea Policy.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat who currently serves as the United States Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations. He served as the U.S. Chargéd'Affaires and Acting Permanent Representative to the United Nations between January 20,2021,and February 24,2021,when Linda Thomas-Greenfield became ambassador.
Thomas Laszlo Vajda is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Myanmar since 2021.
Greta C. Holtz is an American career diplomat who has been Chargéd'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Doha,Qatar since June 14,2020. Ambassador Holtz was the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs from 2019 to 2020 and served as the Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) from 2017 to 2018. Ambassador Holtz was the Vice Chancellor and acting Chancellor of National Defense University's College of International Security Affairs from 2016 to 2017.
Michael R. Carpenter is an American diplomat serving as United States ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in the Biden administration.
