The American Institute in Taiwan is the de facto embassy of the United States of America in Taiwan. AIT is a wholly owned subsidiary of the federal government of the United States in Taiwan with Congressional oversight. The AIT was officially created as a U.S. government-sponsored nonprofit,private corporation established under the auspices of the U.S. government to serve its interests in Taiwan.
Winston Lord is a retired American diplomat. As Special Assistant to the National Security Advisor and then as Director of Policy Planning at the United States Department of State,Lord was a close adviser to Henry A. Kissinger and was instrumental in bringing about the renormalization of U.S.-China relations in the 1970s.
Sadako Ogata,néeNakamura,was a Japanese academic,diplomat,author,administrator,and professor emerita at the Roman Catholic Sophia University. She was widely known as the head of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) from 1991 to 2000,as well as in her capacities as Chair of the UNICEF Executive Board from 1978 to 1979 and as President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) from 2003 to 2012. She also served as Advisor of the Executive Committee of the Japan Model United Nations (JMUN).
Alfred Leroy "Roy" Atherton Jr. was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt in 1979–1983. He was a Middle East expert who helped in the negotiations that led to the 1978 Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt.
Danuta Maria Hübner is a Polish politician and Diplomat and Economist and Member of the European Parliament. She has served as European Commissioner for Regional Policy from 22 November 2004 until 4 July 2009,when she resigned to become a Member of European Parliament for the Civic Platform. In 2012,Professor Hübner became a member of the International Honorary Council of the European Academy of Diplomacy.
John Raymond Garamendi is an American businessman,politician and member of the Democratic Party who has represented areas of Northern California between San Francisco and Sacramento,including the cities of Fairfield and Vacaville in the United States House of Representatives since 2009. Garamendi was the California insurance commissioner from 1991 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007,the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998,and the 46th lieutenant governor of California from 2007 until his election to Congress in late 2009.
Anne Legendre Armstrong was a United States diplomat and politician. She was the first woman to serve as Counselor to the President and as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom,serving in those capacities under the Ford,Nixon,and Carter administrations. She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987.
Robert Sherwood Dillon was the United States Ambassador to Lebanon from 1981 to 1983. He was born in 1929 in Chicago and attended Duke University,graduating in 1951.
Phyllis Elliott Oakley was an American diplomat who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population,Refugees,and Migration (1994–1997) and Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (1997–1999). She was married to former Ambassador Robert B. Oakley and was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council on Foreign Relations. Oakley was a graduate of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy,at Tufts University.
Penne Percy Korth Peacock is an American diplomat. She graduated from the University of Texas in 1964 with a B.A.
Jack Kirkham McFall was an American diplomat.
Joyce Ellen Leader is a former American foreign service officer who served as the American ambassador to Guinea from 1999 to 2000. She succeeded Tibor P. Nagy and was succeeded by R. Barrie Walkley. She is a specialist in African and refugee affairs and is currently a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,and was formerly a Senior Fellow at The Fund for Peace,where she authored "Rwanda’s Struggle for Democracy and Peace,1991–1994".
Tibor Peter Nagy Jr. is a former United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,and a former American foreign service officer who served as the American ambassador to Guinea and to Ethiopia.
Christopher Van Hollen Sr. was an American member of the United States Foreign Service who served as the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives from 1972 until 1976. He was the father of U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.
