Thomas Alfred Shannon Jr. is an American diplomat who served as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs from 2016 to 2018. In early 2017,Shannon served as acting United States Secretary of State until President Donald Trump's nominee,Rex Tillerson,was confirmed. He was also acting Deputy Secretary of State of the United States until the Senate confirmed President Trump's nominee,John J. Sullivan.
Ross L. Wilson is an American diplomat who was the chargéd'affaires of the United States to Afghanistan from 2020 to 2021. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey from 2005 to 2008 and the U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2000 to 2003,with the personal rank of Minister-Counselor. He also teaches part-time at Carleton College. Wilson also previously served as director of the Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council.
Tracey Ann Jacobson is an American diplomat and a former United States Ambassador to Turkmenistan,Tajikistan,Kosovo and Ethiopia. She served as the Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from January 2017 through October 2017. She retired then returned to active duty in 2021 as the State Department's Director of the Afghanistan Task Force,and then as Chargéd’Affaires,ad interim,at the Embassy in Addis Ababa,Ethiopia. She attended Johns Hopkins University.
Jack Foust Matlock Jr. is an American former ambassador,career Foreign Service Officer,a teacher,a historian,and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War,and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991.
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.
Khazar Ibrahim is the appointed ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the United States of America.
Frederic Lincoln Chapin was a United States diplomat. He was the ambassador to Ethiopia and Guatemala.
Patricia Mary Byrne was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Burma from November 1979 to September 1983,and United States Ambassador to Mali from December 1976 to October 1979.
Joseph A. Presel was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan.
Alexander Vladimirovich Yakovenko is a Russian diplomat. He served as the Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom between January 2011 and August 2019. Since August 2019,he has been rector of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia. While working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow,he was in charge of multilateral diplomacy. A graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1976,he later gained a Doctor of Law degree. Yakovenko holds the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary,and speaks Russian,English and French.
The Embassy of the United States in Beijing is the diplomatic mission of the United States in China. It serves as the administrative office of the United States Ambassador to China. The embassy complex is in Chaoyang District,Beijing.
Thomas M. Countryman is a career diplomat who served as United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation from September 27,2011 to January 27,2017.
Alison Kelly is a former Irish diplomat.
Krishna Raj Urs is an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Peru from 2017 to 2020.
Robin Diallo is an American diplomat who is the current Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti,serving under President Donald Trump.
Stephanie Syptak-Ramnath is an American diplomat who is the nominee to be the next US Ambassador to Peru. She most recently served as Deputy Chief of Mission to Mexico.
Susan Nan Stevenson is an American diplomat and career member of the Senior Foreign Service who has served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research since 2021. She previously served as the United States ambassador to Equatorial Guinea from 2019 to 2021.
Allan Phillip Mustard is a retired American agricultural economist and career diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Turkmenistan from 2014 to 2019. He was the chair of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (2019-2021),and advises the Caspian Policy Center.
Elizabeth Rood is an American diplomat who served as the chargée d'affaires of the U.S. mission to Russia from 2022 to 2023,and is the nominee to serve as the United States ambassador to Turkmenistan.
