Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and international relations scholar who served as the United States ambassador to China from 2022 to 2025.
The Consulate General of the United States in Jerusalem was a diplomatic mission of the United States of America that provided consular services to Palestinian residents in Jerusalem,the West Bank and Gaza. It was not accredited to any government. In May 2018,the United States relocated its Tel Aviv embassy to Jerusalem,and in mid-October 2018,U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the consulate general would be merged with the new US Embassy in Jerusalem and that relations with the Palestinians would be conducted through a special Palestinian Affairs Unit inside the embassy. On 4 March 2019,the consulate general was merged into the US Embassy and formally ceased operations. In May 2021,U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that Washington will reopen the consulate,without specifying a date. In September 2021,Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh called on the US administration to speed up the reopening of the consulate general in Jerusalem to handle direct contacts with the Palestinians.
Political relations between the State of Palestine and the United States have been complex and strained since the 1960s. While the U.S. does not recognize the State of Palestine,it recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate representative entity for the Palestinian people;following the Oslo Accords,it recognized the Palestinian National Authority as the legitimate Palestinian government of the Palestinian territories.
Michael Alan Ratney is an American diplomat who was the United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia from April 2023 to January 2025. He previously served as the chargéd'affaires of the United States embassy in Israel.
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 that assignment in January 2015.
The Embassy of the United States of America in Jerusalem is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America to the State of Israel. It is located in Talpiot,a neighborhood in southeastern Jerusalem. In mid-October 2018,Mike Pompeo,the Secretary of State under the Trump administration,declared that the new embassy would be merging with the Consulate General,through which the United States had maintained diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority. Currently,all diplomacy between the United States and the Palestinians is conducted through the "Office of Palestine Affairs" inside of the American embassy for Israel.
Alina L. Romanowski is an American career diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq from June 2022 to December 2024. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait from February 2020 to April 2022.
Donald Armin Blome is an American diplomat who had served as the United States ambassador to Pakistan. He also served as the United States ambassador to Tunisia from 2019 to 2022.
Dorothy Camille Shea is an American career diplomat who serves as the United States Deputy Representative to the United Nations since 2024. She previously had served as the United States Ambassador to Lebanon from 2020 to 2023. On December 7,2022,she received the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award for sustained extraordinary accomplishment. On January 3,2023,President Biden announced his intention to nominate her as Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations,with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,and Deputy Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations as well as Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Barbara A. Leaf is a U.S. diplomat who had served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. As former Senior Foreign Service officer,she served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2015 to 2018.
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.
Yael Lempert is an American diplomat served as the United States ambassador to Jordan from September 2023 to January 2025. Lempert is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,having served in various roles including Senior Director for the Levant,Israel,and Egypt at the National Security Council,and Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in London. In 2023,she was nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate to be the ambassador to Jordan.
Eugene Stewart Young is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Republic of the Congo since 2022.
Caryn R. McClelland is an American diplomat who is serving as the United States ambassador to Brunei. She assumed office in 2022.
Claire A. Pierangelo is an American diplomat who serves as the United States ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros.
Joey R. Hood is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Tunisia.
Marie C. Damour is an American diplomat who is the current Ambassador to Fiji,serving concurrently as the ambassador to Kiribati,Nauru,Tonga,and Tuvalu. She previously served as Consul General of the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam.
Henry V. Jardine is an American diplomat and former military officer serving as the United States ambassador to Mauritius and Seychelles since February 2023.
Elizabeth Rood is an American diplomat who serves as United States ambassador to Turkmenistan. She had served the chargéd'affaires of the U.S. mission to Russia from 2022 to 2023.
Nicole D. Theriot is an American diplomat who has been serving as the U.S. ambassador to Guyana since October 2023.
