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.
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.
Philip Seth Goldberg is an American diplomat and government official who has served as United States ambassador to South Korea since 2022. He served previously as ambassador to the Philippines,Bolivia and Colombia and chief of the U.S. mission in UN-administered Kosovo during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. He has served in Washington as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. In 2022,he was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the U.S. ambassador to South Korea and was confirmed on May 5,2022 by the United States Senate through a voice vote.
Herro Kader Mustafa Garg is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Egypt since November 2023. She served as the United States ambassador to Bulgaria from October 2019 to March 2023.
Mari Carmen Aponte is an American attorney and diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Panama in the Biden administration since November 2022. She previously served as acting assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs on May 5,2016. She also served as U.S. ambassador to El Salvador from August 2010 until December 2011 and again from June 14,2012,until December 2015. Before that she was serving as a member of the board of directors of Oriental Group,a major financial and banking services enterprise in Puerto Rico. President Obama also nominated her as the United States' permanent representative to the Organization of American States,but the Senate had not acted upon that nomination upon adjournment in December 2014.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat who 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. In July 2022,he was announced as the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Nigeria.
Lucy Tamlyn is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo since February 2023. She previously served as chargéd'affaires to Sudan;as United States ambassador to the Central African Republic;and as United States ambassador to Benin.
Laura Farnsworth Dogu is an author and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Honduras. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Nicaragua in the Obama administration.
Virginia Evelyn Palmer is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Ghana since 2022. Palmer is the former United States ambassador to Malawi. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate,beginning the assignment in January 2015.
Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath is an American diplomat who is the nominee to be the next US Ambassador to Peru. She most recently served as Deputy Chief of Mission to Mexico.
Todd D. Robinson is an American diplomat who has served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs since September 2021. He previously served as the charge d'affaires of the U.S. embassy in Venezuela from December 2017 until being expelled in May 2018,and the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala from 2014 to 2017.
Kristina A. Kvien is an American diplomat who has served as United States ambassador to Armenia since February 2023. She previously served as United States chargéd’affaires to Ukraine from May to June 2019 and from January 2020 to May 2022. From June 2019 to January 2020,she was deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of the United States in Kyiv.
Roxanne Cabral is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,class of Minister-Counselor. She currently serves as Senior Vice President of the National Defense University. She has served as the United States Ambassador to the Marshall Islands and served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargéd'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Panama from 2017 to 2020. After joining the State Department in 1997,she has served at Consulate General Guangzhou as Public Affairs Section Chief (2010-2013) along with other overseas assignments including Embassy in Tirana,Albania (2004-2006),Mexico City (2001-2003),Embassy in Kiev,Ukraine (1998-2000),and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT). Domestic assignments including public diplomacy advisor in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs,and Office of the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs (2015-2017). She is a co-author of "Diplomacy for a Diffuse World."
MaryKay Loss Carlson is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Philippines since 2022. She was previously the United States chargéd'affaires in Argentina from 2021 to 2022,after having served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in the country from September 2019.
Eugene Stewart Young is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Republic of the Congo since 2022.
William Huie Duncan is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to El Salvador since February 2023.
Angela Price Aggeler is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to North Macedonia.
Elizabeth Rood is an American diplomat who served as the chargée d'affaires of the U.S. mission to Russia from 2022 to 2023,and is the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Turkmenistan.
Martina Anna Tkadlec Strong is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the United Arab Emirates since October 4,2023. She previously served as the de facto United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia from January 20,2021 until April 16,2023.
