A chargéd'affaires,plural chargés d'affaires,often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to charge-D,is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador. The term is French for "charged with business",meaning they are responsible for the duties of an ambassador. Chargé is masculine in gender;the feminine form is chargée d'affaires.
Anatols Dinbergs was one of the preeminent career diplomats of Latvia. He entered service in Latvia's Foreign Ministry in 1932. Dinbergs remained abroad when the Soviet Union occupied Latvia,serving in the Latvian Legation in Washington,D.C.,after World War II ended. Dinbergs assumed the highest diplomatic post,that of chargéd'affaires,in 1970 and represented Latvia's sovereign interests in exile until Latvia reestablished its independence in 1991. As head of the Latvian diplomatic service abroad,Dinbergs was appointed Latvia's first ambassador to the United Nations and subsequently Latvia's first ambassador to the United States. After retirement,he served as Counselor to the Latvian Embassy in Washington,D.C.,until his death in 1993.
Philip Seth Goldberg is an American diplomat and government official who has served as United States ambassador to South Korea since 2022. He served previously as ambassador to the Philippines,Bolivia and Colombia and chief of the U.S. mission in UN-administered Kosovo during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. He has served in Washington as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. In 2022,he was nominated by President Joe Biden to be the U.S. ambassador to South Korea and was confirmed on May 5,2022 by the United States Senate through voice vote.
The Guatemalan Embassy is the diplomatic representative of the Guatemala Government to the United States Government. Its main functions are to protect the interests of the State and its citizens;keep the channels of communication between governments,encourage and promote trade relations and track identified topics of interest by both countries.
Kelly Colleen Degnan is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,class of Minister-Counselor,currently serving as the US Ambassador to Georgia. Prior to that she served as the Political Advisor to the Commander of United States Naval Forces Europe / United States Naval Forces Africa. Previously,she was the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) to the U.S. Mission to Italy and San Marino in Rome,Italy. In September 2019,she was nominated to be the next U.S. Ambassador to Georgia.
Lucy Tamlyn is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo since February 2023. She previously served as chargéd'affaires to Sudan;as United States ambassador to the Central African Republic;and as United States ambassador to Benin.
Kristina A. Kvien is an American diplomat who has served as United States ambassador to Armenia since February 2023. She previously served as United States chargéd’affaires to Ukraine from May to June 2019 and from January 2020 to May 2022. From June 2019 to January 2020,she was deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of the United States in Kyiv.
Michael J. Fitzpatrick is an American diplomat who has served as the United States Ambassador to Ecuador since 2019.
Eric William Stromayer is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Togo from 2019 until 2022 and is currently the Chargéd'Affaires ad interim to Haiti.
Donald Armin Blome is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Pakistan since 2022. He also served as the United States Ambassador to Tunisia from 2019 to 2022.
Henry T. Wooster is an American diplomat who had served the United States Ambassador to Jordan.
William W. Popp is an American diplomat who had served as the United States Ambassador to Guatemala. He is the designate to be the next US Ambassador to Uganda.
MaryKay Loss Carlson is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the Philippines since 2022. She was previously the United States chargéd'affaires in Argentina from 2021 to 2022,after having served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in the country from September 2019.
David John Young is an American diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Malawi.
Marie C. Damour is an American diplomat who is the current Ambassador to Fiji,serving concurrently as the ambassador to Kiribati,Nauru,Tonga,and Tuvalu. She previously served as Consul General of the U.S. Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam.
