Patrick Francis Kennedy is a former career Foreign Service Officer who served as the U.S. State Department's Under Secretary of State for Management. He was Director of the Office of Management Policy,Rightsizing and Innovation. He has been Deputy Director for Management at the cabinet level Office of the Director of National Intelligence;he returned to the Department of State on May 7,2007. Kennedy was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management and Reform and previously served as Chief of Staff for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He was the Assistant Secretary of State for Administration for the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 2001. In 2014,Kennedy was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Laurence Everett Pope II was an American diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to Chad from 1993 to 1996 and former US Chargéd’Affaires to Libya. Pope held a number of senior posts in the Department of State. He was the Director for Northern Gulf Affairs (1987–1990),Associate Director for Counter-Terrorism (1991–1993),U.S. Ambassador to Chad (1993–1996),and Political Advisor to General Anthony Zinni USMC,Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command (1997–2000).
Libya–United States relations are the bilateral relations between the State of Libya and the United States of America. Relations are today cordial and cooperative,with particularly strong security cooperation only after the 2012 attack on the US liaison office or mission in Benghazi. Furthermore,a Gallup poll conducted in March and April 2012 found that Libyans had "among the highest approval" of US leadership in the entire Middle East and North Africa region.
David Duane Pearce is an American diplomat who served from 2013 to 2016 as the U.S. Ambassador to Greece. He also served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria,2008–11 and as the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem from 2003-2005. He was the Assistant Chief of Mission at the U.S. embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan from 2011-2012;and served as the Acting United States Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia from 2012-2013.
Gene Allan Cretz is a career diplomat who retired from the Senior Foreign Service in 2015. Before retiring,he was the U.S. Ambassador to Ghana.
The foreign relations of Libya were largely reset at the end of the Libyan Civil War,with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and the Second Libyan Civil War. The current Minister of Foreign Affairs since 15 March 2021 is Najla Mangoush. Although many foreign embassies in Tripoli closed down in 2014 due to the fighting,by the end of 2017 thirty diplomatic missions were reopened in the Libyan capital.
John Christopher Stevens was an American career diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22,2012,to September 11,2012. Stevens was killed when the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi,Libya,was attacked by members of Ansar al-Sharia on September 11–12,2012.
The 2012 Benghazi attack was a coordinated attack against two United States government facilities in Benghazi,Libya,by members of the Islamic militant group Ansar al-Sharia.
Richard Gustave Olson Jr. is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer,who formerly served as the United States Ambassador to Pakistan. Prior to his appointment in Pakistan,Olson had served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates as well the Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs in the U.S. Embassy,Kabul with the rank of ambassador. He is a career member of the Foreign Service,class of Career Minister.
Dayton Seymour Mak was an American diplomat who served posts in England,Libya,Lebanon,Kuwait,Saudi Arabia,and Germany. He was the first U.S. Chargéd'Affaires of Kuwait. Mak was also former Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research,for Near East South Asia Affairs.
Michael Douglas Aron is a British diplomat who has been Ambassador to Kuwait,Iraq,Libya and Sudan,and Yemen.
Francis Raymond Baker is a British diplomat and civil servant who was Ambassador to Libya from February 2018 to April 2019. He was Ambassador to Kuwait from 2010 to 2014,and Ambassador to Iraq from 2014 to 2017.
Joan A. Polaschik is a diplomat who has served as Director of the Foreign Service Institute since 2022. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Algeria from 2014 to 2017.
