Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad is an American diplomat and foreign policy expert. Khalilzad was U.S. special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation from September 2018 to October 2021. Khailzad was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as United States ambassador to the United Nations,serving in the role from 2007 to 2009. Khalilzad was the highest ranking Muslim-American in government at the time he left the position. Prior to this,Khalilzad served in the Bush administration as ambassador to Afghanistan from 2004 to 2005 and Ambassador to Iraq from 2005 to 2007.
Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger was an American statesman and career diplomat,who served briefly as the secretary of state under President George H. W. Bush from December 1992 to January 1993,one of the shortest terms in modern history. Previously,he had served in lesser capacities under Presidents Richard Nixon,Jimmy Carter,and Ronald Reagan,and as deputy secretary of state to James Baker under George H. W. Bush. Eagleburger is the only career Foreign Service Officer to have served as secretary of state. He was also Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense from January to May 1973. As a career member of the United States Senior Foreign Service,he attained the rank of Career Ambassador on April 12,1984.
James Phillip Rubin is an American former diplomat and journalist who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Clinton Administration from 1997–2000. He wrote a regular column on foreign affairs for The Sunday Times of London,and has been Diplomatic Counselor to the Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) since June 2021.
John Dimitri Negroponte is an American diplomat. In 2018,he was a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to this appointment,he served as a research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs,United States Deputy Secretary of State (2007–2009),and the first ever Director of National Intelligence (2005–2007).
Thomas Reeve Pickering is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments,he served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.
The 1984 Republican National Convention convened on August 20 to August 23,1984,at Dallas Convention Center in downtown Dallas,Texas. The convention nominated President Ronald W. Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush for reelection.
Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and international relations scholar who has been serving as the United States ambassador to China since 2022.
Melanne Verveer, born on June 24,1944,in Pottsville,Pennsylvania,is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women,Peace,and Security at Georgetown University. She also holds positions as a founding partner of Seneca Point Global,a women's strategy firm,and as a co-founder of Seneca Women. Verveer co-authored the book "Fast Forward:How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose" with Kim Azzarelli.
William Joseph Burns is an American diplomat and the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the Biden administration since March 19,2021. He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state from 2011 to 2014;in 2009 he served as acting secretary of state for a day,prior to the confirmation of Hillary Clinton. Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a 32-year career. From 2014 to 2021,he served as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Tom Chris Korologos was an American lobbyist,political advisor,and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Belgium.
Digital diplomacy,also referred to as Digiplomacy and eDiplomacy,has been defined as the use of the Internet and new information communication technologies to help achieve diplomatic objectives. However,other definitions have also been proposed. The definition focuses on the interplay between internet and diplomacy,ranging from Internet driven-changes in the environment in which diplomacy is conducted to the emergence of new topics on diplomatic agendas such as cybersecurity,privacy and more,along with the use of internet tools to practice diplomacy.
Robert Vossler Keeley had a 34-year career in the Foreign Service of the United States,from 1956 to 1989. He served three times as Ambassador:to Greece (1985–89),Zimbabwe (1980–84),and Mauritius (1976–78). In 1978–80 he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,in charge of southern and eastern Africa.
Kristie Anne Kenney is an American former senior diplomat who served as the 32nd Counselor of the United States Department of State from 2016 to 2017. She is a recipient of the Secretary of State's Distinguished Service Award and held the nation's highest diplomatic rank of Career Ambassador in the United States Foreign Service. She served as the Department of State Transition Coordinator for the 2016–17 transition.
Richard Allen Grenell is an American political operative,diplomat,and public relations consultant. He served as Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) under President Donald Trump in 2020,becoming the first openly gay holder of a cabinet level position in the history of the United States. A member of the Republican Party,Grenell served as the United States Ambassador to Germany from 2018 to 2020 and as the Special Presidential Envoy for Serbia and Kosovo Peace Negotiations from 2019 to 2021.
Pamela Jo Howell Slutz was a career member of the United States Foreign Service who served as U.S. Ambassador to Burundi,and as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia. Over the course of her career,she has also served in various diplomatic posts in Kenya,Taiwan,Indonesia,and China. She was the recipient of two U.S. Department of State Superior Honor Awards and the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive. After retiring in 2012,Slutz continued to work part-time for the Office of the Inspector General,U.S. Department of State. From 2019 to 2024 she served as president of The Mongolia Society.
Penne Percy Korth Peacock is an American diplomat. She graduated from the University of Texas in 1964 with a B.A.
Political relations between the State of Palestine and the United States have been complex and strained since the 1960s. While the U.S. does not recognize the State of Palestine,it recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate representative entity for the Palestinian people;following the Oslo Accords,it recognized the Palestinian National Authority as the legitimate Palestinian government of the Palestinian territories.
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.
Twitter diplomacy,or Twiplomacy,is a form of digital diplomacy,refers to the practice of conducting public diplomacy using the social media platform Twitter by heads of state and diplomats,as well as leaders of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).
Dwight Lamar Bush Sr. is an American businessman who was the United States Ambassador to Morocco from 2014 to 2017.
