Diplomatic rank is a system of professional and social rank used in the world of diplomacy and international relations. A diplomat's rank determines many ceremonial details, such as the order of precedence at official processions, table seatings at state dinners, the person to whom diplomatic credentials should be presented, and the title by which the diplomat should be addressed.
Christopher William Dell is a career United States Foreign Service officer who is currently serving as the Deputy to the Commander for Civil-Military Activity, U.S. Africa Command since 2012. Before his current assignment Ambassador Dell served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kosovo, after having also been posted to Angola and Zimbabwe.
Manuel Rocha is an American diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Bolivia.
Andrey Ivanovich Denisov is a Russian diplomat, since April 22, 2013 he is the Russian Ambassador to China. He is fluent in Chinese, as well as English, apart from his native language.
Zhang Deguang is the secretary general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Liu Jianchao is a Chinese diplomat and politician. He was formerly the chief spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the former director-general of its Information Department. Liu has served as Chinese ambassador to the Philippines and Indonesia.
Wu Dawei was the previous special representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs and former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
Ma Zhaoxu is a Chinese diplomat who serves as vice-minister of Foreign Affairs since 15 July 2019. Previously he served as China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York City from January 2018 to July 2019.
Larry Miles Dinger was the U.S. chargé d'affaires to Burma from 2008 to August 2011. Since the United States did not accredited a formal United States Ambassador to Burma from 1990 to 2012, the chargé d'affaires was the chief of mission and the most senior official in the embassy.
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.
Sameh Hassan Shoukry is an Egyptian diplomat who has been Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt since 2014. Previously, Shoukry served as the Ambassador of Egypt to the United States from 2008 to 2012. He was appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 17 June 2014.
Tharit Charungvat is a former career diplomat from Thailand with more than 30-years experience in the Thai Foreign Service. After his retirement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand in September 2016, he currently is, among others, Secretary-General of the Thailand Foundation and Honorary Adviser to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives of Thailand.
James F. Entwistle was the United States Ambassador to Nigeria from October 28, 2013 to October 2016. From 2010 until 2013 he was the ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is a career Foreign Service Officer. He was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand from July 2007 and was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 2004 until 2006.
Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu is a Turkish diplomat and politician.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat who currently serves as the United States Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations. He previously served as the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires for Canada.
Song Aiguo is a retired Chinese Ambassador.
Kemal Mehmood Homoud was a Jordanian ambassador.
Julián Ventura Valero is a Mexican diplomat, who serves as Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico since December 1st 2018, G-20 Sherpa, and Chair of the Matías Romero Institute.
Jaime Stiglich Berninzon was a Peruvian diplomat.
