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.
Sir Sherard Louis Cowper-Coles is a British former diplomat. He was the Foreign Secretary's Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009–2010. After leaving the Foreign Office,he worked briefly for BAE Systems as international business development director. He left BAE Systems in 2013 and is now a senior adviser to the group chairman and the group chief executive of HSBC. He is also president of the Jane Austen Society.
Assunção Afonso de Sousa dos Anjos was an Angolan diplomat who was Angola's Minister of External Relations from 2008 to 2010.
Sir David Alexander Warren,KCMG is a British diplomat,serving as HM Ambassador to Japan in the period 2008–2012. He retired from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in January 2013,and served as chairman of The Japan Society in London from 2013 to 2019.
Timothy Achille Torlot is a British diplomat serving as the British Ambassador to Uzbekistan since August 2019.
Matthew Steven Gould is a British former civil servant and diplomat who is the Chief Executive Officer of international science-led conservation charity ZSL. He was previously National Director for Digital Transformation in NHS England (2019–2022),Director General for Digital and Media Policy in the Department for Digital,Culture,Media and Sport (2015–19) and Ambassador to Israel (2010–15).
Dame Karen Elizabeth Pierce,Lady Roxburgh,,is a British diplomat who has served as British Ambassador to the United States since 2020.
Order of Brilliant Star is a civilian order of the Republic of China (Taiwan) recognizing outstanding contributions to the development of the nation. The order is instituted in 1941 and can be awarded to both domestic and foreign nationals.
Robert Nigel Paul Macaire CMG is a British diplomat who served as UK's Ambassador to Iran from 2018 to 2021.
Catherine Nettleton is a British diplomat who has been ambassador to Peru,ambassador to Venezuela,and UK Representative in Taiwan.
British Office Taipei,formerly British Trade and Cultural Office (BTCO),is the representative office of the United Kingdom Government in Taiwan. It maintains and develops financial,educational,cultural,and technological relations and provides assistance to British nationals in Taiwan. It functions as a de facto embassy in the absence of diplomatic relations between London and Taipei.
David Coates is a retired British diplomat,scholar,former Ambassador to Ivory Coast and Director General of the British Trade &Cultural Office (BTCO) in Taipei.
Sir Alan Stanley Collins,KCVO,CMG,is a retired British diplomat and former Consul General in New York City (2007–11),High Commissioner to Singapore (2003–07) and Ambassador to the Philippines (1998–2002).
Christopher Terence Wood is a retired British diplomat who served latterly as the British Consul General to Shanghai (2019-2023). His previous assignments included Deputy Head of the EU Delegation to China (2016-19),Representative,British Office Taipei from 2013 to 2016,Minister,British Embassy Beijing (2008–2012),Director for the Americas,Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2007–2008) and the British Consul-General to Guangzhou (2003–2006).
Jessica Mary Hand is a British diplomat who was the British Ambassador to Angola from 2018 to 2021. She was appointed as ambassador on 21 July 2017 and succeeded John Dennis in March the next year.
Joanna Louise Roper,Lady Drew,is a British diplomat who has served as the British Ambassador to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague since 2020.
Ross Patrick Denny is a British diplomat who has been the British Ambassador to Costa Rica and Nicaragua since 2015. He was appointed as ambassador on 3 February 2015 and succeeded Sharon Campbell and Chris Campbell in September that year.
Hugh Stephen Murray Elliott is an executive and former British diplomat who served as Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Spain and non-resident Ambassador Extraordinary to Andorra from 2019 to 2024. Prior to this,he was Director for Communications at the Department for Exiting the European Union. Elliott currently works as executive chairman of Iberdrola Energía Internacional.
Raymond Burghardt is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Vietnam from 2002 to 2004,Director (1999-2001) as well as Chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006 to 2016.
