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.
The foreign relations of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have,since 1960,been dominated by the issues of the Spanish Sahara and the recognition of its independence by its neighbours,particularly Morocco. Mauritania's foreign relations are handled by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation,who is currently Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug.
Earl Anthony Wayne is an American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs,Ambassador to Argentina and Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan,Wayne served nearly four years as Ambassador to Mexico. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August,2011. He departed Mexico City for Washington July 31,2015 and retired from the State Department on September 30,2015. Wayne attained the highest rank in the U.S. diplomatic service:Career Ambassador. He is currently a Professorial Lecturer and Distinguished Diplomat in Residence at American University's School of International Service where he teaches courses related to diplomacy and US foreign policy. Wayne also works with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,the Atlantic Council,the Center for Strategic and International Studies,. Wayne is co-chair of the Mexico Institute's Advisory Board at the Wilson Center. He is also on the board of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Public Diplomacy Council of America. Wayne is an independent consultant,speaker and writer and works with several not-for-profit professional associations. He was an adviser for HSBC Latin America on improving management of financial crime risk from 2015 until 2019 and served on the board of the American Foreign Service Association from 2017 to 2019.
Mark Boulware is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Chad from 2010 to 2013. He also served as the United States Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania from 2007 until 2010.
Kenneth H. Merten is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to Bulgaria since April 2023. Merten has served in various positions in the Department of State beginning in 1987,most notably as ambassador to Haiti from 2009 to 2012,ambassador to Croatia from 2012 to 2015,and special coordinator for Haiti from 2015 to 2017.
On 20 November 2015,Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako,the capital city of Mali. US Army Sergeant First Class Kyle Morgan,a member of the Combat Applications Group,the DOD SMU commonly referred to as Delta Force,along with the assistance of GySgt Jared Stout,a MARSOC CSO that worked out of the same embassy as Morgan,launched an assault with Malian Security Forces on the hotel to recover the surviving hostages. Al-Mourabitoun claimed that it carried out the attack "in cooperation with" al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb;an al Qaeda member confirmed that the two groups cooperated in the attack.
Peter William Bodde is a member of the United States Foreign Service,and was the 8th United States Ambassador to Libya. He has previously served as the United States Ambassador to Nepal and as the United States Ambassador to Malawi,during which time he was credited for promoting awareness of HIV/AIDS discrimination.
Daniel Lewis Foote is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service who was the United States Special Envoy for Haiti from July to September 2021. He formerly served as the United States Ambassador to Zambia.
Perry Lee Holloway is an American diplomat and was the former Ambassador to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
W. Patrick Murphy is a career U.S. diplomat. A Senior Foreign Service Officer,he served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2018 to 2019,fulfilling the duties of Acting Assistant Secretary,and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Southeast Asia and Multilateral Affairs,2016–2018. He previously served as Chargéd'affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission in the Kingdoms of Thailand and Lesotho. He was nominated on January 16,2019 to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Cambodia.
Dennis Bruce Hankins is an American diplomat who is serving as American Ambassador to Haiti. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to Mali between 2019 and 2022 and the United States Ambassador to Guinea between 2015 and 2019.
Dennis Walter Hearne is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Mozambique from 2019 to 2022.
Eric William Stromayer is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Togo from 2019 until 2022 and he had served the Chargéd'Affaires ad interim to Haiti.
Eugene Stewart Young is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Republic of the Congo since 2022.
