Ryan Clark Crocker is an American retired diplomat who served as a career ambassador within the United States Foreign Service and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has served as United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (2011–2012),Iraq (2007–2009),Pakistan (2004–2007),Syria (1998–2001),Kuwait,and Lebanon (1990–1993). In January 2010,he became Dean of Texas A&M University's George Bush School of Government and Public Service.
James Franklin Jeffrey is an American diplomat who served most recently as the United States Special Representative for Syria Engagement and the Special Envoy to the International military intervention against ISIL.
William James Crowe Jr. was a United States Navy admiral and diplomat who served as the 11th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush,and as the ambassador to the United Kingdom and Chair of the Intelligence Oversight Board under President Bill Clinton.
Robert Dean Blackwill is a retired American diplomat,author,senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations,and lobbyist. Blackwill served as the United States Ambassador to India under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003 and as United States National Security Council Deputy for Iraq from 2003 to 2004,where he was a liaison between Paul Bremer and Condoleezza Rice.
Jeffrey S. Davidow is a career foreign service officer from the U.S. state of Virginia. Davidow has served as a member of the Senior Foreign Service,as well as having been the U.S. Ambassador to Zambia,Venezuela,and Mexico.
William Lester Eagleton Jr. was a United States Foreign Service Officer and diplomat who served as Ambassador to several Middle Eastern and North African states.
Cynthia Grissom Efird is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Angola from 2004 to 2007. She was succeeded by Dan Mozena.
Henry Allen Holmes was the United States Ambassador to Portugal from 1982 to 1985 and a career diplomat.
Robert Halsey Pelletreau Jr. is a diplomat and former United States Ambassador to Bahrain (1979–80),Tunisia (1987–91),and Egypt (1991–93),as well as the former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He currently sits on the U.S. Advisory Council of the Israel Policy Forum. He is also a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and Council on Foreign Relations.
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 Geneeral 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.
Richard Boyce Norland is an American diplomat. He currently serves as the United States Ambassador to Libya.
Philip Thomas Reeker is an American diplomat and career foreign service officer with the Department of State who currently serves as the Chargéd'affaires of the United States mission to the United Kingdom. He was previously Acting Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs,where he oversaw a portfolio of 50 countries,before serving at U.S. European Command (EUCOM) in Stuttgart,Germany,and Foreign Policy Advisor Program (POLAD) from 2017 to May 31,2019. Reeker was also U.S. Consul General in Milan,Italy from September 5,2014,Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs from 2011 through 2013,and as the ambassador to Macedonia from 2008 to 2011.
Joseph Adam Ereli is an American lobbyist,who formerly served as a diplomat and ambassador.
Stephen A. Seche was the United States Ambassador to Yemen from 2007 to September 2010.
David George Newton was the United States Ambassador to Iraq under Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1988,and to Yemen under Bill Clinton from 1994 to 1997.
Mary Burce Warlick is a Papua New Guinean-born,American diplomat who was appointed Deputy Executive Director of the International Energy Agency in May 2021. A former United States career diplomat,she served as the United States Ambassador to Serbia from January 2010 to September 2012,as the U.S. Consul General in Melbourne,Australia from October 2012 to July 2014,as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Energy Resources at the Department of State from August 2014 to September 2017,and as Acting Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs from January to September 2017.
The Georgetown Leadership Seminar (GLS) is an annual gathering of selected rising leaders from around the world for a week of intensive discussion on major international issues. The program was established in 1982 by Georgetown University in order to promote dialogue among individuals who would shape the futures of their countries. GLS attracts individuals from government,corporations,law firms,financial institutions,the military,international organizations,NGOs,the media,universities,think tanks,and elsewhere who occupy positions of influence and have the potential to move up to greater leadership roles. The selected participants are then exposed to the major global issues and the Washington foreign policy-making process through direct contact with top level policy makers and experts. The program is derived from Harvard’s “international seminar”conducted by Henry Kissinger in the 1950s and 1960s. The GLS is now administered by the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. Original committee members included Zbigniew Brzezinski,Madeleine Albright,Henry Kissinger,and Peter F. Krogh.
Matthew H. Tueller is an American diplomat who formerly served as the United States Ambassador to Iraq. A career United States Foreign Service officer,he served as the United States Ambassador to Kuwait and Yemen as well.
Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak is a Yemeni politician who is the current Foreign Minister of Yemen. He was previously the Ambassador of Yemen to the United States.
Baghdad Kultaevich Amreyev is the Secretary-General of the Organization of Turkic States,as well as a Kazakh political figure and diplomat.
President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service (2007)
