Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud is a retired Saudi Arabian diplomat,military officer,and government official who served as Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005. He is a member of the House of Saud. From 2005 to 2015 he served as secretary general of the National Security Council,and was director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014. From 2014 to 2015 he was King Abdullah's special envoy.
John Philip Abizaid is a retired United States Army general and former United States Central Command (CENTCOM) commander who served as the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2019 to 2021.
Brad Rogers Carson is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Oklahoma who served as the Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness from 2015 to 2016. In that role,he initiated a number of notable reforms to include opening up all combat positions to women,open service by transgender service members,and new recruiting and retention practices.
Adel Al-Jubeir is a Saudi diplomat who is the former Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs and the current Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. He is the second person not belonging to the House of Saud to hold the office,after Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel. He previously served as the Saudi Ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2015,and was also a foreign policy advisor to King Abdullah.
Robert James Nicholson is an attorney,real estate developer,and a former Republican National Committee chairman. He was the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs from January 26,2005,until October 1,2007.
Anne Woods Patterson is an American diplomat and career Foreign Service Officer. She served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from 2013 to 2017. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Egypt until 2013 and as United States Ambassador to Pakistan from July 2007 to October 2010.
David Maclain Hale is an American diplomat and career ambassador,who previously served as the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He is currently a Distinguished Diplomatic Fellow at the Wilson Center,on detail from the Department of State.
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.
The United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland is the top U.S. diplomat supporting the Northern Ireland peace process. The position is held by Joe Kennedy III,appointed by president Joe Biden on December 19,2022.
Donald Read Heath was a member of the United States Foreign Service for more than four decades including service as the Minister to Laos (1950–1954),and Ambassador to Cambodia (1950–1954),Vietnam (1952–1955),Lebanon (1955–1957) and Saudi Arabia (1958–1961). During his tenure as Ambassador to Vietnam,Heath advocated and carried out American policy under Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that helped set the stage for American military involvement.
Rashad Hussain is an American attorney,diplomat,and professor,who currently serves as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. He previously served as associate White House counsel,as U.S. Special Envoy of President Barack Obama to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC),and the U.S. Special Envoy for strategic counterterrorism communications. Hussain has also served on the United States National Security Council and in the Department of Justice as a trial attorney and a criminal and national security prosecutor.
Abdul Rahman bin Hamad Al Attiyah is a Qatari diplomat who served as the fourth secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
On 11 October 2011,United States officials alleged there was a plot tied to the Iranian government to assassinate Saudi ambassador Adel al-Jubeir in the United States. The plot was referred to as the "Iran assassination plot" or the "Iran terror plot" in the media,while the Federal Bureau of Investigation named the case "Operation Red Coalition". Iranian nationals Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri were charged on 11 October 2011 in federal court in New York with plotting to assassinate Al-Jubeir. According to U.S. officials,the two planned to kill Al-Jubeir at a restaurant with a bomb and subsequently bomb the Saudi embassy and the Israeli embassy in Washington,D.C. Bombings in Buenos Aires were also discussed. Arbabsiar was arrested on 29 September 2011 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York while Shakuri remained at large. On 24 October 2011,Arbabsiar pleaded not guilty. In May 2013,after pleading guilty,Arbabsiar was sentenced to 25-years imprisonment.
Joseph Estey Macmanus is an American diplomat who served as Executive Secretary of the United States Department of State from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that,he served as the U.S. Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna from 2012 to 2014,as well as interim coordinator for efforts to implement President Barack Obama's Iran Nuclear Deal in 2015. He was President Donald Trump's nominee to become United States Ambassador to Colombia. This nomination was reported favorably by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in May 2018,but was returned to the President at the close of the 115th Congress without consideration by the full Senate. In May 2019,it was announced that Philip Goldberg would replace Macmanus as nominee to be the next United States Ambassador to Colombia.
Jamil Ibrahim Hejailan is a Saudi diplomat,who served as secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) from 1996 to 2002. He was the ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Germany,Kuwait,and France. Hejailan was the first minister of information and broadcasting of Saudi Arabia,and also served as the minister of health.
Alice G. Wells is an American diplomat and former Ambassador of the United States of America to Jordan.
Mary Catherine "Molly" Phee is an American diplomat who has served as assistant secretary of state for African affairs since September 2021. She previously served as the U.S. ambassador to South Sudan from 2015 to 2017. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister counselor.
Omar Al Saqqaf (1923–1974) was a Saudi Arabian diplomat and politician who served as the minister of state for foreign affairs being the first Saudi to hold the post. He was among the leading officials of Saudi Arabia in foreign relations and one of the trusted envoys of King Faisal. He died in New York City while serving as the minister of state.
