Michele Jeanne Sison is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service serving as the assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs. She has previously served in various other diplomatic posts around the world on behalf of the United States,including ambassador to Haiti. Sison holds the personal rank of career ambassador.
John Francis Maisto is a retired U.S. career diplomat,who rose from Foreign Service Officer to eventually serve as a U.S. Ambassador in a number of postings.
Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
Richard Eugene Hoagland is a career ambassador in the United States Department of State. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs from 2013-2015. In the summer of 2016,based at the U.S. Embassy in Amman,Jordan,he was the senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Russian military base in Latakia,Syria. In 2017 he served as interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,the group appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to coordinate international peace-making efforts on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Samuel Winfield Lewis was an American diplomat. During a lengthy career with the United States Department of State,he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1975–1977),U.S. ambassador to Israel (1977–1985) and Director of Policy Planning (1993–1994). As ambassador to Israel,Lewis played a major part in brokering the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt. He also headed the United States Institute of Peace from 1987 through 1993.
Philip Seth Goldberg is an American diplomat and government official who has served as United States ambassador to South Korea since 2022. He served previously as ambassador to the Philippines,Bolivia and Colombia and chief of the U.S. mission in UN-administered Kosovo during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. He has served in Washington as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. In 2022,he was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the U.S. ambassador to South Korea and was confirmed on May 5,2022 by the United States Senate through a voice vote.
Peter Michael McKinley is an American diplomat. A career Foreign Service Officer,McKinley served as U.S. Ambassador to Peru (2007–2010),Colombia (2010–2013),Afghanistan (2015–2016),and Brazil (2017–2018),and then as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State (2018–2019).
Kelly Colleen Degnan is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,class of Minister-Counselor,who served as the United States Ambassador to Georgia from 2020 to 2023. Prior to that she served as the Political Advisor to the Commander of United States Naval Forces Europe / United States Naval Forces Africa. Previously,she was the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) to the U.S. Mission to Italy and San Marino in Rome,Italy. In September 2019,she was nominated to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Georgia.
Francisco "Paco" Palmieri is an American diplomat who previously served as acting assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs,leading the State Department’s efforts to advance U.S. foreign policy goals in the region from January 2017 to November 2018. Palmieri managed the successful 2018 Summit of the Americas in Peru,U.S. engagement with the Lima Group unifying 15 Western Hemisphere democracies in a multilateral diplomatic response to the crisis in Venezuela,the reorientation of U.S. foreign assistance in support of the Colombia peace process,the formulation and adoption of a new comprehensive U.S. political and economic Caribbean 2020 strategy,the launch of the renegotiation of the 50-year old Columbia River Treaty with Canada,and the multi-agency response to the ongoing migration challenges emanating from Central America. He also was responsible for the daily management of the bureau’s 53 overseas U.S. diplomatic missions,12,000 employees,and implementation of the hemisphere’s $1.58 billion foreign assistance and $290 million operating budgets. He recently served as the civilian deputy and foreign policy advisor to Admiral Craig S. Faller at United States Southern Command,succeeding former ambassador Jean Elizabeth Manes in July 2021.
Todd D. Robinson is an American diplomat who has served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs since September 2021. He previously served as the charge d'affaires of the U.S. embassy in Venezuela from December 2017 until being expelled in May 2018,and the U.S. ambassador to Guatemala from 2014 to 2017.
Dereck Jamal Hogan is an American diplomat who had served as United States Ambassador to Moldova. He had served as Principal Deputy and Acting Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs.
Robert Stuart Gilchrist is an American diplomat who had served as the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for democracy,human rights,and labor from September 2023 to August 2024. He served as the United States ambassador to Lithuania from February 2020 to August 2023. He is a career Foreign Service Officer with the rank of minister counselor. He was appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20,2019. Gilchrist was the fifth US ambassador from the LGBT community nominated to serve by the Trump administration.
Horace Merle Cochran was an American diplomat,economist,and career Foreign Service Officer. He served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia from 1949 to 1953.
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.
Thomas Laszlo Vajda is an American diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Myanmar between 2021-2022.
Christopher John Lamora is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Cameroon since 2022.
David John Young is an American diplomat who was the United States Ambassador to Malawi.
Dean Richard Thompson is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Nepal since October 21,2022.
