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.
John F. Tefft is an American diplomat who has served as a Foreign Service Officer since 1972. He was confirmed as the United States Ambassador to Russia on July 31,2014. He had previously served as the United States' ambassador to Ukraine,Georgia,and Lithuania.
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.
George Albert Krol is a United States foreign service officer and career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. Krol formerly served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan. A position he was sworn in to on January 8,2015.
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.
Kristie Anne Kenney is a former senior U.S. diplomat who served as the 32nd Counselor of the United States Department of State from 2016 to 2017. She is a recipient of the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award and held the nation's highest diplomatic rank of Career Ambassador in the United States Foreign Service. She served as the Department of State Transition Coordinator for the 2016-17 Transition.
Barbara Jean Stephenson is an American diplomat and university official. Stephenson served as President of the American Foreign Service Association from 2015 to 2019. She was formerly the Dean of the Leadership and Management School of the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington,Virginia. Formerly,she was Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in London,and acted as Chargéd'Affaires following the departure of Ambassador Louis Susman. She is the former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Panama. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and was appointed by President Barack Obama in the Summer of 2010.
Herro Kader Mustafa is an American diplomat who has served as the U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria since October 2019. She carries the rank of Counselor,the lowest of four ranks in the Senior Foreign Service.
Jo Ellen Powell is a career member of the United States Foreign Service who served as Consul General in Frankfurt,Germany and was nominated as the US ambassador to Mauritania by Barack Obama on July 15,2010. She has been known in Frankfurt for her active engagement with Germany's Muslim community,as well as with students,through the "Windows on America" program. Prior to that Powell was the executive director of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs,director of the Office of Employee Relations,and management counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Canberra,Australia. Powell has also served in France,Italy,Lebanon,and Jordan. She is married to Stephen Engelken,also a career diplomat and current deputy chief of mission to Islamabad in Pakistan,with whom she has a son.
James Warlick is a US diplomat,former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria.
Mary Burce Warlick is a Papua New Guinean-born,American diplomat who was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in May 2021. A former United States career diplomat,she served as the United States Ambassador to Serbia from January 2010 to September 2012,as the U.S. Consul General in Melbourne,Australia from October 2012 to July 2014,as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Energy Resources at the Department of State from August 2014 to September 2017,and as Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs from January to September 2017.
John A. Heffern is an American diplomat. Heffern served as the United States Ambassador to Armenia from 2011 to 2014. After being nominated on May 18,2011 by United States President Barack Obama,Heffern was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 26,2011 and sworn in as Ambassador on October 6,2011. He was replaced by Ambassador Richard M. Mills Jr. in early 2015.
Matthew H. Tueller is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Iraq. A career United States Foreign Service officer,he previously served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen.
Terence Patrick McCulley is the former United States Ambassador to The Ivory Coast and a retired member of the Senior Foreign Service,with the rank of Minister-Counselor. McCulley was nominated by President Barack Obama to this post on June 26,2013,and presented his credentials to Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on November 21,2013. He is currently the Senior Director of the Africa practice at McLarty Associates and the Chairman of the U.S.-Nigeria Council.
Atul Keshap is an American diplomat and career United States Foreign Service Officer from Virginia who recently served as the Chargéd'affaires of the United States mission to India. He formerly served as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the United States Department of State. In January,2022,he was appointed as the president of U.S.-India Business Council.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat who currently serves as the United States Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations. He 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.
Todd Crawford Chapman is an American career diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Brazil and the United States Ambassador to Ecuador.
Lucy Tamlyn is an American diplomat serving as the chargéd'affaires to Sudan after being appointed by Secretary Antony Blinken in January 2022. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Benin from 2015 to 2018 and as United States ambassador to the Central African Republic from 2019 to 2022.
Alaina B. Teplitz has served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration since 2021. She served as U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives from 2018–2021 and U.S. Ambassador to Nepal from 2015–2018. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Career Minister,she joined the State Department in 1991 and is the recipient of numerous Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards.
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.
