Michael Hayden Armacost is a retired American diplomat and a fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. He was acting United States Secretary of State during the early days of the administration of President George H. W. Bush,before Secretary James Baker was confirmed by the Senate. Armacost also served as United States Ambassador to Japan and the president of the Brookings Institution from 1995 to 2002.
Edward Charles Prado is an American diplomat who is a former United States ambassador to Argentina from 2018 to 2021. He is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Howard H. Leach is an American diplomat and businessman. He served as the United States Ambassador to France from 2001 to 2005.
Laura Skandera Trombley is an American academic administrator and scholar of Mark Twain. She is the Chair Emerita of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and was the fifth President of Pitzer College in Claremont,California,and the eighth President of the Huntington Library,Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino,California. In March 2018,she was named as the tenth president of University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport,Connecticut. On April 2,2020,Skandera Trombley was named the 16th president of Southwestern University.
Susan Rasinski McCaw is an American businesswoman,former diplomat and philanthropist. She was a major fundraiser for the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign,and was appointed by the Bush administration as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Austria (2005–2007). She is currently President of SRM Capital Investments,a private investment firm. Previously,she worked at Robertson Stephens &Co.,as President of COM Investments and as its Principal.
Michael Anthony McFaul is an American academic and diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Russia from 2012 to 2014. McFaul became the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor in International Studies in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University in 1995,where he is the Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also a Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. Prior to his nomination to the ambassadorial position,McFaul worked for the U.S. National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and senior director of Russian and Eurasian affairs,where he was the architect of U.S. President Barack Obama's Russian reset policy.
Francis Joseph Ricciardone Jr. is a former President of the American University in Cairo. Ambassador Ricciardone was the United States ambassador to Turkey between 2011 and 2014. Previously he was Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan. He was also on leave from the U.S. Department of State as a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt (2005–2008),the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau (2002–2005). As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,he received U.S. government and other organization awards for his work in foreign policy and program management,political reporting and analysis,and peacekeeping.
San Marino and the United States enjoy friendly diplomatic relations.
Freeman Spogli &Co. is an American private equity firm dedicated to investing with management in middle market companies in the consumer and distribution sectors through leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. The firm is a private enterprise and primarily invests in its domestic American market.
Karl Winfrid Eikenberry is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who served as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from April 2009 to July 2011. From 2011 to 2019,he was the director of the U.S. Asia Security Initiative at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and a Stanford University professor of the practice;a member of the core faculty at the Center for International Security and Cooperation;and an affiliated faculty member at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,Center on Democracy,Development and the Rule of Law,and the Europe Center.
Paolo Rondelli is a Sammarinese politician and diplomat who served as Captain Regent of San Marino alongside Oscar Mina from 1 April to 1 October 2022. He was the world's first openly LGBTQ head of state.
Ertharin Cousin is an American lawyer who served as the twelfth executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme from 2012 to 2017. Following the completion of her term,Cousin became Payne Distinguished Professor at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,distinguished fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment and the Center on Democracy,Development and the Rule of Law,accepted an appointment as a distinguished fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs,and became a trustee on the UK based Power of Nutrition Board of Directors.
Martin J. Silverstein is an American attorney and diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005.
Louis John Nigro Jr. was an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Chad from 2007 to 2010.
John Joseph Danilovich is an American business executive who was secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce from 2014 –2018. He previously held roles as a senior United States government executive,diplomat,and ambassador.
William Sydney Fisher is an American hedge fund manager. He has been a director of Gap Inc. since 2009,and the founder and chief executive officer of Manzanita Capital Limited. The son of Gap Inc. founders Donald Fisher and Doris F. Fisher,William Fisher has been involved with the company as a board member or employee for nearly 30 years.
John R. Phillips is an American diplomat and attorney who served as the United States Ambassador to Italy and San Marino,serving from 2013 to 2017. As a partner at Phillips &Cohen,LLP (1988–2013) and before that,in Los Angeles,he practiced public interest law,specializing in whistleblower cases that recovered billions from companies defrauding the government.
Noah Bryson Mamet is an American diplomat and businessman who served as the United States Ambassador to Argentina under U.S. President Barack Obama,serving from 2015 to 2017.
Bradford M. "Brad" Freeman is an American businessman and conservative political fundraiser.
Kyle Randolph Scott is a U.S. diplomat in the Senior Foreign Service and a former U.S. Ambassador to Serbia.
