Puneet Talwar | |
---|---|
United States Ambassador to Morocco | |
Assumed office November 21, 2022 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | David T. Fischer |
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs | |
In office April 9,2014 –November 2015 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Thomas P. Kelly III |
Succeeded by | R. Clarke Cooper |
Personal details | |
Born | 1965 (age 58–59) |
Education | Cornell University (BS) Columbia University (MIA) |
Puneet Talwar (born 1965 in Washington D.C.) is an American diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador to Morocco. [1] [2] He previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs from 2014 to November 2015. [3] Talwar served as a top Middle East advisor to Barack Obama and played a central role in the backchannel diplomacy that produced the Iran nuclear deal. Prior to working in the White House,he was a top advisor to then-Senator Joe Biden on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for twelve years. [4]
Talwar earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University. [5]
From 1995 to 1999 and again from 2001 to 2008,Talwar served as the Chief Middle East,North Africa,and South Asia Advisor to Joe Biden on the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Talwar then worked on the Policy Planning Staff of the United States Department of State from 1999 to 2001. Talwar was a foreign policy advisor for the United States House of Representatives,and served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Iraq,Iran,and the Gulf States on the National Security Council from 2009 to 2014. [6] In 2012,Foreign Policy Magazine named Talwar as one of the 50 most powerful Democrats in foreign policy. [7]
In 2014,Talwar was nominated by Barack Obama to serve as Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. He left office in 2015 and was eventually replaced by R. Clarke Cooper in 2019. [8]
Since leaving government service,Talwar has served as chairman and President of Crest International,a US-based private investment company. [9] He is also a senior advisor at WestExec Advisors,a strategic advisory firm founded by former Obama administration officials Michèle Flournoy and Tony Blinken. [10]
In November 2020,Talwar was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the United States Department of State. [11]
On March 18,2022,President Joe Biden nominated Talwar as the United States Ambassador to Morocco. [12] Hearings on his nomination were held before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 27,2022. The committee favorably reported the nomination on August 3,2022. He was confirmed by the entire Senate via voice vote on September 8,2022. [13]
Denise Campbell Bauer is an American diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to France and Monaco. Bauer served as Ambassador of the United States to Belgium from 2013 to 2017. After being nominated by President Barack Obama,she was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on August 2,2013;she was sworn in the following August 7. She left office on January 20,2017. A member of the Democratic Party,she was the executive director of Women for Biden.
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 a voice vote.
Richard Rahul Verma is an American diplomat,who serves as the deputy secretary of state for management and resources,a position he has held since April 5,2023. He served as the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs from 2009 to 2011,and as the U.S. ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. He served as the chief legal officer and head of global public policy at Mastercard,from 2020 to 2023,and as the vice chair of the Asia Group from 2017 to 2020,where he oversaw the firm's South Asia practice. He also practiced law for many years at Steptoe &Johnson LLP in Washington DC,and served as a Senior Counselor and Lead of the India and South Asia practice at Albright Stonebridge Group.
Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón is a Dominican-American attorney and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. Most recently,she was the chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden. She formerly served as a litigation and international arbitration partner with the international law firm Winston &Strawn LLP. She was previously a partner with Chadbourne &Parke LLP,practicing in the firm's International Arbitration and Latin America groups. Reynoso is also affiliated with the faculty at Columbia University School of Law and the School of International and Public Affairs. From March 2012 until December 2014,she served as United States Ambassador to Uruguay. She is a former deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the United States Department of State. President Biden nominated her to be the next United States Ambassador to Spain on July 27,2021,being confirmed on December 18,2021.
Tulinabo Salama Mushingi is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Angola and the United States ambassador to São Toméand Prí
Jane Dorothy Hartley is an American business executive and diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to the United Kingdom in the Joe Biden administration since 2022. She served as the United States ambassador to France and Monaco from 2014 until 2017 during the Barack Obama administration. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Bernadette M. Meehan is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Chile since 2022. She previously worked as chief international officer for the Obama Foundation. She also served as a spokesperson for the United States National Security Council in the Obama Administration.
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.
Bathsheba "Sheba" Nell Crocker is an American diplomat who is currently serving as the Representative of the United States to the European Office of the United Nations. She previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 2014 to 2017.
Julieta Valls Noyes is an American diplomat who is serving as the Assistant Secretary of State for Population,Refugees,and Migration in the Biden administration. She previously served as the United States Ambassador to Croatia from 2015 to 2017 during the Obama administration.
Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat is an American diplomat who is the current Director General of the Foreign Service. She is a former United States Ambassador to Bangladesh. She served as Ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau from 2008 to 2011. From January 1,2019,to April 3,2020,she was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the Department of State.
Virginia Evelyn Palmer is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Ghana since 2022. Palmer is the former United States ambassador to Malawi. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate,beginning the assignment in January 2015.
Michael Arthur Raynor is an American Foreign Service Officer specializing in relations with Africa who has served as the United States ambassador to Senegal and the United States ambassador to Guinea-Bissau since 2022. He was the United States ambassador to Ethiopia until January 2021. He previously served as the Director of the Office of Career Development and Assignments in the Bureau of Human Resources of the United States Department of State. Raynor served as United States Ambassador to Benin from 2012 to 2015 after being nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Prior to his post in Benin,he was deputy executive director and then executive director of the Bureau of African Affairs.
Colin Hackett Kahl is an American government official and academic who served as under secretary of defense for policy in the administration of President Joe Biden from April 28,2021,to July 14,2023. Previously,he served as national security advisor to the vice president under then-Vice President Joe Biden (2014–2017). After the Obama administration,Kahl served as a Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow at Stanford University.
Barbara A. Leaf is a U.S. diplomat serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs since May 2022. As former Senior Foreign Service officer,she served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2015 to 2018.
Cynthia Kierscht is an official at the United States Department of State who has served as the United States Ambassador to Mauritania since June 22,2021. President Biden on January 23,2023,announced his intent to nominate Kierscht as the next US Ambassador to Djibouti.
James C. O'Brien is an American attorney and diplomat who serves as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. He previously served as head of the Office of Sanctions Coordination in the Biden administration from April 14,2022 to October 5,2023 and as the special envoy for hostage affairs from August 28,2015 to January 20,2017.
Julianne Smith is an American foreign policy advisor and diplomat who serves as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO in the Biden administration. She previously served as deputy national security advisor to then-Vice President Biden in the Obama administration.
Nicole D. Theriot is an American diplomat who has been serving as the U.S. ambassador to Guyana since October 2023.
{{cite web}}
: |last=
has generic name (help){{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)