John F. Tefft is an American diplomat who has served as a Foreign Service Officer since 1972. He was the United States Ambassador to Russia between July 31,2014 and September 28,2017. 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.
Mary Thompson-Jones is a retired senior Foreign Service Officer in the United States' Department of State. In July 2016,she published her first book,To The Secretary:Leaked Embassy Cables and America's Foreign Policy Disconnect.
Paul Wayne Jones is an American diplomat who was the United States Chargéd'affaires to Pakistan and the former United States Ambassador to Poland. Prior to that,he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs at the United States Department of State and earlier he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia. He arrived in Warsaw,Poland,and began serving as ambassador on September 24,2015. He is widely regarded as one of the Foreign Service's only senior experts on both Europe and East Asia.
Arnold A. Chacón is an American career diplomat who served as acting United States Ambassador to Canada in 2021. He has served as Senior Vice President of the National Defense University since August 2018.
Jeffrey DeLaurentis is an American diplomat who served as the Chargéd'affaires ad interim of the Embassy of the United States,Havana from 2015 to 2017 and is currently serving as the acting U.S. ambassador for special political affairs.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Nigeria since July 2024. He served as the United States deputy ambassador to the United Nations from 2020 to 2024 and,in that capacity,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. He previously served as the U.S. Chargéd'Affaires for Canada.
Jason P. Hyland is Senior Advisor at Dentons Global Advisors - Albright Stonebridge Group and based in Tokyo,Japan. He was previously President &Representative Officer of MGM Resorts Japan LLC and a former American diplomat who served as the acting United States Ambassador to Japan. He was deputy to Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and assumed the position of Charge d'Affaires upon her departure on January 18,2017,until July 31,2017. As Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States Embassy in Tokyo,Japan,Hyland was involved in the organization of President Barack Obama's May 2016 historic visit to Hiroshima and attended the ceremony. He wrote about his impressions of the event in his blog in the US Embassy's American View online magazine.
Lewis Alan Lukens is a retired American diplomat who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. His final assignment was as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy in London.
Krishna Raj Urs is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Peru from 2017 to 2020.
D. Brent Hardt is an American career Senior Foreign Service Officer and present Consul General at the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver,B.C.,Canada who served in the Western Hemisphere,Europe,and in Political-Military assignments. From 2011-2014 he served as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana and Plenipotentiary Representative of the United States to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM). He most recently served as Chargéd'Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Paris,France beginning in August 2017. Prior to his arrival in Paris,he served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander of U.S. Central Command and as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. Other assignments include service as Chargéd’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean from 2009-2011,and Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargéd’Affaires at U.S. Embassies in The Bahamas (2005-2008) and the Holy See in Rome (2002-2005).
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.
Philip Scott Kosnett is an American diplomat. He was sworn in as the fifth U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo on November 27,2018. Kosnett's previous assignment was as Chargéd'Affaires ad interim at the United States Embassy in Ankara,Turkey. Kosnett was nominated in July 2018 by U.S. president Trump to be the next ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo. The Senate confirmed him in this position in September 2018. Kosnett arrived in Kosovo in December 2018 and departed post in September 2021.
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.
Kristina A. Kvien is an American diplomat who has served as United States ambassador to Armenia since February 2023. She previously served as United States chargéd’affaires to Ukraine from May to June 2019 and from January 2020 to May 2022. From June 2019 to January 2020,she was deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of the United States in Kyiv.
Adam H. Sterling is a retired American diplomat. He previously served as the Ambassador to Slovakia from September 2016 to August 2019.
MaryKay Loss Carlson is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Philippines since 2022. She was previously the United States chargéd'affaires in Argentina from 2021 to 2022,after having served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in the country from September 2019.
Jess Lippencott Baily,alternatively spelled as Lippincott,is an American diplomat.
Marja D. Verloop is an American career diplomat. She was the Chargéd'Affaires,and thus acting Ambassador,from the United States to the Netherlands.
