The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. It is consistently ranked one of the leading graduate schools for international relations in the world. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development.
Donald Yukio Yamamoto is an American diplomat who served as the United States ambassador to Somalia from 2018 to 2021. Before that he was the acting assistant secretary of state for african affairs with a term of appointment starting September 3,2017 until July 23,2018. Yamamoto previously served as the senior vice president of International Programs and Outreach at the National Defense University from 2016 to 2017. Prior to that,he was senior advisor to the Director General of the Foreign Service on personnel reform from 2015 to 2016;he served as Chargéd'Affaires at the U.S. Mission Somalia office in Mogadishu in 2016;and in senior positions in Kabul,Mazar e-Sharif,and Bagram,Afghanistan from 2014 to 2015.
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.
William Caldwell Harrop is an American diplomat. Harrop served for 39 years as a Foreign Service Officer,with postings as United States ambassador to Guinea,Kenya and the Seychelles,the Congo (Kinshasa),and Israel.
The American Academy of Diplomacy is a private,nonprofit,non-partisan,elected organization whose active membership is limited to men and women who have held positions of high responsibility in crafting and implementing American foreign policy. They have served the United States as chiefs of mission in major embassies abroad,and/or equivalent high-level foreign policy positions in Washington.
Gregory W. Engle is a United States Diplomat and former U.S. Ambassador to Togo. He was sworn in as ambassador on May 12,2003. Greg Engle retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2008 and currently lives in Austin,Texas,where he teaches at the University of Texas and pursues his musical interests as a singer-songwriter. In January 2010,he released his first album,"Take It Personally," with noted producer/musician Stephen Doster and several well known Austin musicians. His song "Woody's Ghost" won first prize at the Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Competition in 2011.
Vicki J. Huddleston is a retired U.S. diplomat who served as Ambassador to Mali,and U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar.
Teddy Bernard Taylor is a United States diplomat. A member of the Senior Foreign Service,Taylor served as the United States Ambassador to Papua New Guinea,Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. He was succeeded by Walter E. North on November 7,2012.
Joyce Ellen Leader is a former American foreign service officer who served as the American ambassador to Guinea from 1999 to 2000. She succeeded Tibor P. Nagy and was succeeded by R. Barrie Walkley. She is a specialist in African and refugee affairs and is currently a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service,and was formerly a Senior Fellow at The Fund for Peace,where she authored "Rwanda’s Struggle for Democracy and Peace,1991–1994".
African-Americans in foreign policy in the United States catalogs distinguished African Americans who have and continue to contribute to international development,diplomacy,and defense through their work with the U.S. Department of State,the U.S. Agency for International Development,the U.S. Information Agency,and the U.S. Congress,and other notable agencies and non-governmental organizations. The creators acknowledge the presence of the interagency contributions to the foreign affairs realm,and welcome additional content to showcase the achievements of African-Americans in other relevant USG agencies.
Sahle-Work Zewde is an Ethiopian politician and diplomat who is the president of Ethiopia since 2018,being the first woman to hold the office. She was elected as president unanimously by members of the Federal Parliamentary Assembly on 25 October 2018.
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 Príncipe since 2022. He previously served as the United States ambassador to Burkina Faso from 2013 to 2016,and a joint appointment as United States ambassador to Senegal and United States ambassador to Guinea-Bissau from 2017 to 2022. He also served in the executive offices of Secretaries of State John F. Kerry and Hillary Clinton.
Robert Frank Godec is an American diplomat who has served as the United States ambassador to Thailand since October 2022. He formerly served as the United States ambassador to Kenya from 2013 to 2019 and the United States ambassador to Tunisia from 2006 to 2009. He also served as acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs from January to September 2021.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield is an American diplomat who is the United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Joe Biden. She served as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs from 2013 to 2017. Thomas-Greenfield then worked in the private sector as a senior vice president at business strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington,D.C.
Mary Catherine "Molly" Phee is an American diplomat who has served as assistant secretary of state for African affairs since September 2021. She previously served as the U.S. ambassador to South Sudan from 2015 to 2017. She is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of minister counselor.
Aurelia Erskine Brazeal is a retired American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia,United States Ambassador to Kenya and United States Ambassador to Ethiopia.
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.
David R. Gilmour is an American diplomat who is serving as the United States Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea since 2022.
