List of ambassadors of the United States to Serbia

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Ambassador of the United States to Serbia
Амбасадор Сједињених Држава у Србији
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Incumbent
Alexander Titolo
Chargé d'affaires
since January 10, 2025
NominatorThe president of the United States
Inaugural holder Eugene Schuyler
as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
FormationNovember 10, 1882
Website U.S. Embassy - Belgrade

This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to Serbia.

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Some parts of today's Serbia had been under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire (from 1459 until 1804) while other parts were occupied by Habsburg monarchy (1526–1804), Austrian Empire (1804–1867), and Austria-Hungary (1867–1918). Upon regaining its independence (partial in 1804 and full in 1878), the Serbian state strengthened and expanded and was in 1918 the driving force behind the creation of Yugoslavia (the land of South Slavs, a multi-ethnic state that over the following seven decades experienced various models of governance). In 1992 Yugoslavia disintegrated, although two of its constituent units - Serbia and Montenegro - continued in the same federal state under the same name Yugoslavia until 2003, when they re-organized into Serbia and Montenegro. After the Montenegrin independence referendum in May 2006, Serbia, as the only remaining unit in the federation, restored its independence on 5 June 2006.

The United States established diplomatic relations with Serbia on November 10, 1882 when Eugene Schuyler was appointed resident U.S. Ambassador to Serbia, Romania and Greece, in Athens.

Since July 17, 1919, U.S. diplomatic missions were based in Yugoslavia and since May 1992 after the breakup of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia – United States relations cooled off, were severed after the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The U.S. Embassy formally reopened in Belgrade in May 2001.

The United States Embassy in Serbia is located in Belgrade.

Ambassadors

PortraitNameTitleAppointed Presented credentials Terminated missionNotes
Kingdom of Serbia
Photo of Eugene Schuyler, American Consul-General in Constantinople.jpg Eugene Schuyler – Career FSO [1] Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryNovember 10, 1882September 19, 1884Resident in Athens, Greece
John Walker Fearn.jpg Walker Fearn – Career FSOSeptember 19, 1884September 28, 1885October 24, 1889Resident in Athens, Greece
ALoudonSnowden.JPG A. Loudon Snowden – Career FSOOctober 24, 1889November 28, 1889August 25, 1892Resident in Athens, Greece
Eben-alexander.jpeg Eben Alexander – Career FSOAugust 25, 1892June 29, 1894August 10, 1897Resident in Athens, Greece
William Woodville Rockhill.jpg William Woodville Rockhill – Career FSOAugust 10, 1897May 7, 1898April 27, 1899Resident in Athens, Greece
Arthur Sherburne Hardy.jpg Arthur S. Hardy – Career FSOApril 27, 1899June 24, 1900March 2, 1901Resident in Athens, Greece
Charles S. Francis portrait 02.jpg Charles S. Francis – Career FSOMarch 2, 1901May 13, 1901December 24, 1902Resident in Athens, Greece
Erich Sellin - J.B. Jackson, bust portrait - LCCN2014680897.jpg John Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSODecember 24, 1902October 13, 1902July 13, 1905Resident in Athens, Greece
John W. Riddle cph.3b20636.jpg John W. Riddle – Career FSOJuly 13, 1905May 7, 1906January 23, 1907Resident in Bucharest, Romania
KNOWLES, HORACE G. HONORABLE LCCN2016857231.jpg Horace G. Knowles – Career FSOJanuary 23, 1907January 16, 1907February 4, 1909Resident in Bucharest, Romania
John Ridgely Carter, 1901.jpg John R. Carter – Career FSOFebruary 4, 1909May 3, 1910October 27, 1911Resident in Bucharest, Romania
Erich Sellin - J.B. Jackson, bust portrait - LCCN2014680897.jpg John Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSOOctober 27, 1911January 16, 1912October 15, 1913Resident in Bucharest, Romania
Image from page 5 of "Secrets of the Balkans" (1921) (14800417583).jpg Charles J. Vopicka – Career FSOOctober 15, 1913December 15, 1913December 17, 1918Resident in Bucharest, Romania
For U.S. Ambassadors between 1918 and 1992, see United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia
Serbia and Montenegro
The United States announced in May 1992 that it would not recognize the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (comprising Serbia and Montenegro) as the successor to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and until 2000 used an appelation "Serbia-Montenegro" instead, when it switched to an appelation "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia". The FR Yugoslavia was reconstituted as the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, before its dissolution in 2006.
Robert Rackmales.jpg Robert Rackmales – Career FSOChargés d'affaires ad interimMay 1992N/AJuly 1993
Rudolf V. Perina, official portrait,1998.jpg Rudolf V. Perina – Career FSOJuly 1993N/AFebruary 1996
Lawrence E. Butler.jpg Lawrence Butler – Career FSOFebruary 1996N/AAugust 1996
Richard Miles.jpg Richard M. Miles – Career FSOAugust 1996N/AMarch 1999
The embassy was closed from March 1999 to October 2000.
William Dale Montgomery in 2002.jpg William Dale Montgomery – Career FSOChargés d'affaires ad interimOctober 2000N/AJanuary 2002
William Dale Montgomery in 2002.jpg William Dale Montgomery – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJanuary 4, 2002January 4, 2002February 29, 2004
MPofficial photo2.JPG Michael C. Polt – Career FSOFebruary 29, 2004May 21, 2004August 3, 2007 [2]
Republic of Serbia
Cameron Munter.jpg Cameron Munter – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 26, 2007August 15, 2007 [3] January 19, 2010
Mary Burce Warlick ambassador.jpg Mary Burce Warlick – Career FSO [4] December 24, 2009January 28, 2010 [5] September 17, 2012
Michael D. Kirby (2).jpg Michael David Kirby – Career FSOAugust 3, 2012September 19, 2012January 29, 2016
Kyle Scott.jpg Kyle Randolph Scott – Career FSOSeptember 15, 2015February 5, 2016September 27, 2019
Anthony F. Godfrey official photo.jpg Anthony Francis Godfrey – Career FSOSeptember 30, 2019October 24, 2019February 12, 2022 [6]
Christopher R. Hill, U.S. Ambassador.jpg Christopher Robert Hill – Career FSOMarch 11, 2022March 31, 2022January 10, 2025

Notes

  1. "US Ambassador to Serbia. US GOVERNMENT OFFICE" . Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  2. "Biography of Ambassador Michael C. Polt". 16 October 2008.
  3. "Munter, Cameron". 15 August 2007.
  4. "U.S. Embassy in Serbia". Archived from the original on 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
  5. https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/warlick-mary-burce [ bare URL ]
  6. "Ambassador - Currently Vacant Position". U.S. Embassy in Serbia. Archived from the original on February 24, 2022. Retrieved February 24, 2022.

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