Robert Nicholas Burns is an American diplomat and academic who is the 13th and current United States Ambassador to China since 2022. Burns is a professor of diplomacy and international politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a member of the Board of Directors of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is director of the Aspen Strategy Group,senior counselor at The Cohen Group,and serves on the board of directors of Entegris,Inc.
Andrei Dapkiunas is a Belarusian diplomat who is currently Ambassador-designate of Belarus to Austria and Slovenia,Permanent Representative of Belarus to the international organisations in Vienna and to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). He holds the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary since 2011.
Kanat Bekmyrzauly Saudabayev is a Kazakh politician who served as the State Secretary of Kazakhstan from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that,he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2009 to 2011 and in 1994,Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States from 2000 to 2007,Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1996 to 1999 and Ambassador to Turkey from 1994 to 1996.
Richard Eugene Hoagland is a career ambassador in the United States Department of State. He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs,2013-2015. In the summer of 2016,based at the U.S. Embassy in Amman,Jordan,he was the senior U.S. liaison to the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Russian military base in Latakia,Syria. In 2017 he served as interim U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group,the group appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to coordinate international peacemaking efforts on the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Erlan Abilfayizuly Idrissov is a Kazakh politician who served as Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan 1999 to 2002 and 2012 to 2016.
The United States and the Republic of Kazakhstan established diplomatic relations on December 16,1991. The United States opened its embassy in Almaty in January 1992 and then relocated to Nur-Sultan in 2006.
Akmaral Haidarqyzy Arystanbekova is a Kazakhstani diplomat who served the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic from November 1989 to December 1991. She was the first Permanent Representative of Kazakhstan to the United Nations from 1992 to 1999. She was the fourth female ambassador among the 176 member states of the United Nations. After her UN assignment,she also served as Ambassador to France and Permanent Representative to UNESCO.
Stephen D. Mull is a Senior Foreign Service officer who was most recently the Acting Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. He previously served as United States Ambassador to Poland,Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and United States Ambassador to Lithuania.
James Warlick is a US diplomat,former United States Ambassador to Bulgaria.
Richard Merrill Mills Jr. is an American diplomat who serves as the United States deputy ambassador to the United Nations. He 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. In July 2022,he was announced as the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Nigeria.
James Desmond Melville Jr. is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Estonia from December 2015 to June 29,2018,when he resigned as Ambassador,effective on July 29,2018.
Beibut Atamkulov is a Kazakh politician and diplomat currently serving as the Minister of Industry and Infrastructure Development. He served as a Minister of Foreign Affairs from December 2018 to September 2019. Atamkulov has an economic and financial background. Previously,Atamkulov served as the head of the newly created Ministry of Defence and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan.
The Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal is a medal awarded in 2018 by the Rada of the Belarusian Democratic Republic to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the republic in 1918. The medal has been awarded to more than 180 activists,politicians and researchers in Belarus and abroad.
George P. Kent is an American diplomat who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs from 2018 to 2021. As a United States Foreign Service officer,his early service has included assignments in the U.S. diplomatic missions to Poland,Thailand and Uzbekistan. In 2004,he was assigned to serve as deputy political counselor in Kyiv,Ukraine,and was deputy chief of mission in Kyiv from 2015 to 2018.
Julie D. Fisher is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Belarus from 2020 to 2022. She is a nominee to be the United State ambassador to Cyprus. She previously served as a deputy assistant secretary of state.
Asqar Orazalyūly Şäkirov is a Kazakh politician who serves as a Chair of the Senate of Kazakhstan since 2 September 2019.
Steven H. Fagin is an American diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Yemen since 2022.
Lesslie Clay Viguerie is an American attorney and diplomat who is the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.
Christopher T. Robinson is an American diplomat who is the current nominee to be the next US Ambassador to Latvia.
