Robert Wood Johnson IV is an American businessman who is co-owner of the New York Jets and was formerly the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2021. He is a great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson I,and an heir to the Johnson &Johnson pharmaceutical fortune.
Trump Turnberry is a golf resort in Turnberry,South Ayrshire,located on the Firth of Clyde in southwest Scotland. It comprises three links golf courses,a golf academy,a five-star James Miller-designed hotel from 1906,along with lodge and cottage accommodations. Turnberry was a popular golf course and resort from its inception,made accessible because of the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway. It closed in both World Wars for military use,and there was concern it would not open following World War II,but it was redesigned by Mackenzie Ross and re-opened in 1951.
Ross L. Wilson is an American diplomat who was the chargéd'affaires of the United States to Afghanistan from 2020 to 2021. He was the U.S. ambassador to Turkey from 2005 to 2008 and the U.S. ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2000 to 2003,with the personal rank of minister-counselor. He also teaches part-time at Carleton College. Wilson also previously served as director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council.
Philip Thomas Reeker is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer with the Department of State who currently serves as the senior advisor for Caucasus negotiations. He was previously Chargéd'affaires of the United States mission to the United Kingdom from 2021 to 2022 and acting assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2019 to 2021.
Matthew Winthrop Barzun is an American businessman,diplomat and political fundraiser who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He is a business executive who is known for his work with CNET Networks and for his fundraising work on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. He served as United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2009 to 2011. He was selected by President Barack Obama as National Finance Chair for the president's 2012 re-election campaign. He is author of The Power of Giving Away Power from Optimism Press,an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Hugo Llorens is a retired American diplomat. He is a former U.S. Special Chargéd'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan,(2016–17) and United States Ambassador to Honduras (2008–2011). In his 36-year career he was posted to numerous countries spanning 6 continents. In 2002–2003,he joined the White House staff and served as Director of Andean Affairs advising the President and National Security Advisor on issues pertaining to Colombia,Venezuela,Bolivia,Peru,and Ecuador.
James Peter Zumwalt is an American diplomat with expertise in trade,economy,and East Asia. On November 19,2014,he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to Senegal and to Guinea-Bissau. Previously,he worked as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,covering Japan and Korea. Until December 2011,he was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo where he also served as chargéd'affaires ad interim during the absence of an Ambassador from January to August 2009. He coordinated the U.S. Embassy's response to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
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.
The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang,Beijing.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Nigeria since July 2024. He served as the United States deputy ambassador to the United Nations from 2020 to 2024 and,in that capacity,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. He previously served as the U.S. Chargéd'Affaires for Canada.
Todd Crawford Chapman is an American career diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Brazil from 2020 to 2021 and as the United States ambassador to Ecuador from 2016 to 2019.
Krishna Raj Urs is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Peru from 2017 to 2020.
Eric George Nelson is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2019 to 2022.
Michael A. McCarthy is an American diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Liberia from January 22,2021 to July 12,2023.
William W. Popp is an American diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Uganda since September 2023. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Guatemala.
Robert William Forden is an American diplomat who served as the United States' Chargéd'affaires to China from 2020 to 2021. He previously served as the deputy chief of mission to the American Institute in Taiwan and the deputy chief of mission to the Embassy of the United States in Beijing. He is the current nominee to be the next United States Ambassador to Cambodia.
Yael Lempert is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Jordan since September 2023. 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.
