The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is a think tank based in Washington,D.C.,in the United States. CSIS was founded as the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Georgetown University in 1962. The center conducts policy studies and strategic analyses of political,economic and security issues throughout the world,with a specific focus on issues concerning international relations,trade,technology,finance,energy and geostrategy.
Charles Woodruff Yost was a career U.S. Ambassador who was assigned as his country's representative to the United Nations from 1969 to 1971.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a specialist graduate school of Johns Hopkins University devoted to the study of international relations,diplomacy,and public policy. SAIS has additional campuses in Bologna,Italy,and Nanjing,China.
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli is an American political scientist who also served in the Department of State. In 2006,she was appointed as the first Ambassador for women's empowerment by the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on United Nations Reform. She was sworn in as the First American Muslim Ambassador in July 1990. Dr. Tahir-Kheli was the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy,Human Rights and International Operations at the White House National Security Council,from 2003-2005. She has served three Republican presidential administrations since 1980.
The School of International Service (SIS) is American University's school of advanced international study,covering areas such as international politics,international communication,international development,international economics,peace and conflict resolution,global environmental politics,and U.S. foreign policy.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who is the 13th and current United States Ambassador to China since 2022. Burns is a professor of diplomacy and international politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a member of the Board of Directors of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is director of the Aspen Strategy Group,senior counselor at The Cohen Group,and serves on the board of directors of Entegris,Inc.
Horace Greeley Dawson,Jr. was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Botswana.
Francis Mading Deng is a politician and diplomat from South Sudan who served as the newly independent country's first ambassador to the United Nations from 2012 to July 2016.
The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies,or the Graduate Institute,abbreviated IHEID,is a government-accredited postgraduate institution of higher education located in Geneva,Switzerland.
According to the 2012 U.S. Global Leadership Report,79% of Botswana people approve of U.S. leadership,with 8% disapproving and 13% uncertain.
Mozambique –United States relations are bilateral relations between Mozambique and the United States.
The Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver is a professional school of international affairs offering undergraduate,graduate,and doctoral degrees. It is named in honor of the founding dean,Josef Korbel,father of former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
Johnnie Carson is a diplomat from the United States who has served as United States Ambassador to several African nations. In 2009 he was nominated to become U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs by President Barack Obama. He resigned in 2013 after four years in the role and following the resignation of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He is currently a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group and the United States Institute of Peace.
Lee Andrew Feinstein is an American policy-scholar,and former diplomat and senior official at the US Departments of State and Defense. Feinstein held senior positions on leading Democratic presidential campaigns in 2008. He served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 2009 to 2012,appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the US Senate. Feinstein is currently the inaugural dean at Indiana University's Lee H. Hamilton and Richard G. Lugar School of Global and International Studies. His nonpartisan scholarship has been recognized by leading Republicans and Democrats.
William Green Miller was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Ukraine under Bill Clinton,from 1993 to 1998.
Gina Kay Abercrombie-Winstanley(born 1957) is an American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Malta from 2012 to 2016. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed on March 29,2012. She was sworn in on April 18,2012,and presented her credentials to George Abela,President of Malta,on May 2,2012. On April 12,2021 she was sworn in to serve as chief diversity and inclusion officer for the United States Department of State.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden. She served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2013 to 2017. Thomas-Greenfield then worked in the private sector as a senior vice president at Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington,D.C.
Reuben E. Brigety II is an American diplomat and academic who was the vice chancellor and president of the University of the South,in Sewanee,Tennessee. He is the current nominee to be the next United States Ambassador to South Africa.
Kelly Colleen Degnan is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,class of Minister-Counselor,currently serving as the US Ambassador to Georgia. 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.
