Michele Jeanne Sison is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service serving as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She has previously served in various other diplomatic posts around the world on behalf of the United States,including ambassador to Haiti. Sison holds the personal rank of career ambassador.
Maura Ann Harty is an American diplomat. She was United States Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs from November 21,2002,to February 29,2008. She was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. She was then the President and CEO of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Make a Wish Foundation. In November 2014,Harty was appointed President &CEO of the International Centre for Missing &Exploited Children (ICMEC).
Tracey Ann Jacobson is an American diplomat and a former United States ambassador to Turkmenistan,Tajikistan,Kosovo and Ethiopia. She served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from January 2017 through October 2017. She retired then returned to active duty in 2021 as the State Department's Director of the Afghanistan Task Force,and then as Chargéd’Affaires,ad interim,at the Embassy in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. In January 2024,she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as the United States ambassador to Iraq.
Michael A. Sheehan was an American author and former government official and military officer. He was a Distinguished Chair at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point,New York and a terrorist analyst for NBC News.
Willard Leon Beaulac was an American diplomat. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay,Colombia,Cuba,Chile and Argentina.
Patricia Mary Byrne was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Burma from November 1979 to September 1983,and United States Ambassador to Mali from December 1976 to October 1979.
Catherine Mary Russell is an American attorney and political adviser who is the executive director of UNICEF as of 2022. Russell previously served as Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office,United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues,and Chief of Staff to then-Second Lady of the United States Jill Biden.
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley is an American diplomat,attorney,political activist and philanthropist who is the United States ambassador to Brazil in the Biden administration. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Portugal from 1994 to 1997.
Piper Anne Wind Campbell is a professor of practice and former American diplomat. She was the 9th U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia. From June to December 2018,Campbell was the Chargéd'affaires ad interim at the United States Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. She is inaugural Chair of the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security at American University's School of International Service,directing its US Foreign Policy and National Security (USFP) as well as International Affairs Policy and Analysis (IAPA) graduate programs.
Frances Elizabeth Willis was an American diplomat who served as the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland,Norway and Sri Lanka. She was the third woman to enter the U.S. Foreign Service in 1927 and the first woman to make a career of it.
Bernadette M. Meehan is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Chile since 2022. She previously worked as chief international officer for the Obama Foundation. She also served as a spokesperson for the United States National Security Council in the Obama Administration.
Michele Thoren Bond is a retired U.S. diplomat and former Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Deborah A. McCarthy is an American diplomat and a former Ambassador of the United States of America to Lithuania.
Helen Ruth Meagher La Lime is a diplomat,former United States Ambassador to Angola,and United Nations Special Representative in Haiti.
Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat is an American diplomat who is the current Director General of the Foreign Service. She is a former United States Ambassador to Bangladesh. She served as Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau from 2008 to 2011. From January 1,2019,to April 3,2020,she was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the Department of State.
Joan A. Polaschik is a diplomat who has served as Director of the Foreign Service Institute since 2022. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2014 to 2017.
James Brendan Foley is a retired American foreign service officer. He served as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Haiti from May 27,2003 to August 14,2005,and as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Croatia from August 12,2009 to August 19,2012. As Ambassador to Haiti,Foley participated in the late-night negotiations between Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide and U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell leading to Aristide's February 29,2004 resignation and acceptance of a U.S. offer to fly him into exile.
Carol Zelis Perez is a career Foreign Service Officer,who previously served as the Director General of the Foreign Service. Perez served as the U.S. Ambassador to Chile from October 2016 to January 2019.
Janet E. Garvey is a faculty member at Northeastern University and was a Career Foreign Service Officer who served as the American Ambassador to Cameroon (2007-2010),
