- Sean McCormack
Sean McCormack is a U.S. Assistant Secretary of State. He was sworn in as Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs and Department Spokesman on June 2 2005. Immediately prior to returning to the State Department, McCormack was Special Assistant to the President, Spokesman for the National Security Council, and Deputy White House Press Secretary for Foreign Policy. McCormack began his career in the Foreign Service in 1995. - Richard Boucher
Richard A. Boucher was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs on February 21, 2006. The Bureau of South Asian Affairs was expanded to include the nations of Central Asia shortly before his confirmation. In 2005, Boucher became the longest-serving Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs in the Department of State’s history. He began his most recent tenure as Spokesman for the State Department in May, … - Thomas R. Pickering
Ambassador Pickering is senior vice president for international relations for Boeing. He has had a long career spanning five decades as a U.S. diplomat, serving as under secretary of state for political affairs, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and as U.S. ambassador to Russia, India, Israel, Nigeria, Jordan, and El Salvador. He also served on assignments in Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. - Michael Guest
Michael E. Guest was the U.S. Ambassador to Romania, appointed by President George W. Bush. Guest was sworn in by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on September 18, 2001 and took up his duties on September 24, 2001. During his speech at Guest's swearing-in ceremony in the State Department Diplomatic Reception Room, Powell explicitly noted the presence of and positively recognized Guest's same-sex partner, Alex Nevarez. - Daniel Fried
Daniel Fried took the oath of office as Assistant Secretary of State on May 5, 2005. Before taking the helm of the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Ambassador Fried served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council since January 22, 2001. Ambassador Fried was Principal Deputy Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States from May 2000 until January 2001. - Edward Djerejian
Edward P. Djerejian is a former US diplomat, currently Director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. - U. Alexis Johnson
Ural Alexis Johnson (b. October 17 1908 - d. March 24 1997) was a United States diplomat, born in Falun, Kansas. He graduated Occidental College in 1931 and he entered the Foreign Service in 1935. He played a role in the ceasefire in the Korean War. He was ambassador to Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1958, Thailand from 1958 to 1961, and to Japan from 1966 to 1969. He was also Deputy Undersecretary for Political Affairs, and a member of ExComm, from 1969 to 1973. - Anne W. Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson (born 1949 in Fort Smith, Arkansas), was the acting United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005. She took over after former Ambassador Senator John Danforth resigned, effective on January 20 2005, and continued until John Bolton assumed the position on August 1 of the same year. On March 7 2005, President George W. Bush nominated Bolton to become the permanent U.N. Ambassador. - Robert White
Robert White served as U.S. ambassador under different administrations. He currently is president of the Center for International Policy. In 1980-81, he was posted in El Salvador during the first years of that country's brutal 12-year civil war. He was harshly critical of the Salvadoran government and accused the military and paramilitaries (widely alleged to have close ties) of committing widespread atrocities against civilians, … - George Moose
George Edward Moose (born June 23, 1944) was an American diplomat who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador to the UN agencies in Geneva, and as Ambassador to the Republics of Benin and Senegal. He is primarily known for serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Clinton Administration during the genocide in Rwanda. George Moose was born in New York City in 1944 and was raised in Denver, Colorado. - Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Jack Foust Matlock, Jr. (b. 1929, North Carolina) is a former American 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 U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991. He is a historian of the Cold War and scholar of Russian history and culture. - John B. Bellinger III
John B. Bellinger, III was sworn in as the Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State on April 8, 2005. He is the principal adviser on all domestic and international law matters to the Department of State, the Foreign Service, and the diplomatic and consular posts abroad. He is also the principal adviser on legal matters relating to the conduct of foreign relations to other agencies and, through the Secretary of State, to the President and the National Security Council. - David Hale
David Hale was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan on November 2, 2005. Mr. Hale had been serving as Deputy Chief of Mission in Amman since July 2003 and as Chargé d'affaires since July 2004. Previously, he was the State Department’s Director of the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, and Executive Assistant to the Secretary of State. - Victoria Nuland
Ambassador Nuland was United States Deputy Permanent Representative to NATO in Brussels, Belgium from July 2000 to July 2003. There she was instrumental in NATO's historic invocation of Article 5 of its charter - "an attack on one ally is an attack on all" - in support of the U.S. after September 11, 2001. - David M. Satterfield
David Michael Satterfield (born December 18, 1954) is an American diplomat who served extensively in the Middle East, including the Persian Gulf, Lebanon, and Iraq. He now serves as a Senior Advisor on Iraq for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. His name came up in the AIPAC/Larry Franklin Pentagon mole case. The indictment, however, did not accuse Satterfield of any wrongdoing, and he was never indicted. - Joseph Grew
Joseph Clark Grew was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 27, 1880. He served as the U. S. ambassador to Denmark 1920–1921 and ambassador to Switzerland 1921–1924. In 1924, Grew became the Under Secretary of State and oversaw the establishment of the Foreign Service. Grew was the US Ambassador to Turkey 1927–1932 and the ambassador to Japan beginning in 1932. - George C. McGhee
George Crews McGhee (1912- July 4, 2005) was a career diplomat in the United States foreign service. He served as ambassador to Turkey and ambassador to Germany. In 1989, McGhee donated his villa in Alanya, Turkey to Georgetown University. Today it is known as The McGhee Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, and welcomes students each spring. - Edward S. Walker Jr.
Edward S. Walker born in Abington, Pennsylvania. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the UAE. Middle East specialist. Edward Walker received his B.A. from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1963 and his M.A. from Boston University in 1965. In 1985, he attended the Royal College of Defense Studies in London. In 1962, Walker enlisted in the U.S. Army and served 3 years in Heidelberg, Germany. Ambassador Edward S. Walker, Jr. - John S. Service
John Stewart Service (3 August 1909 - 3 February 1999) was an American diplomat who served in the Foreign Service in China prior to and during the World War II. Considered one of the State Department's "China Hands", he was an important member of the Dixie Mission to Yan'an. In the immediate postwar years, Service was indicted in the Amerasia Affair in 1945, of which a Grand Jury cleared him of wrongdoing. - Robert C. Frasure
Robert C. Frasure was an American diplomat and the first American Ambassador to the modern Republic of Estonia. Born in Morgantown to parents who were educators, he attended West Virginia University, the London School of Economics and received a Ph.D. from Duke University. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He taught briefly at Duke and the University of the South and contributed to various professional journals including the American Political Science Review. - John E. Herbst
Prior to becoming Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Mr. Herbst had recently returned from a three-year assignment as the U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem. Previously, he served as the Principal Deputy to the Ambassador at Large for the Newly Independent States, Director of the Office of Independent States and Commonwealth Affairs, and Director of Regional Affairs in the Near East Bureau. - Jack R. Binns
Jack Robert Binns (born 1933 in Oregon) was the U.S. Ambassador to Honduras from 1980 to 1981. Now retired from the Foreign Service, Binns is an author and resides in Tucson, Arizona. In 2000, he published his memoirs of his time as an ambassador (see below). - Jefferson Caffery
Jefferson Caffery (December 1, 1886 - April 13, 1974) was the former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador (1926-1928), Colombia (1928-1933), Cuba (1934-1937), Brazil (1937-1944), France (1944-1949), and Egypt (1949-1955). - Dylan Walsh
Dylan Walsh is an American actor, best known as Dr. Sean McNamara in the FX television series "Nip/Tuck" He was born Charles Hunter Walsh in Los Angeles, California on November 17, 1963. His parents worked for the Foreign Service, and Walsh lived in East Africa, India and Indonesia before the age of 10. His family returned to the United States and settled in Virginia, where Walsh began acting in high school. - Paul A. Trivelli
Paul Arthur Trivelli is an American diplomat. He is currently the U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua. Trivelli graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology in 1974 and from the University of Denver with a Master of Arts degree in international relations in 1978. He entered the Foreign Service in 1978 and for most of his career has served as an Economic/Commercial Officer. - Alexander Watson
Alexander Fletcher Watson (born August 8, 1939) is a retired American ambassador and diplomat of Maryland. Watson was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, earning a bachelor's degree in government in 1961, and joined the Foreign Service in 1962. Watson served as Vice Consul/Third Secretary at the American embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and in 1964 became Vice Consul at the embassy in Madrid, Spain. - Rodric Braithwaite
Sir Rodric Quentin Braithwaite, GCMG (born 17 May, 1932) is a British diplomat and author. Braithwaite was educated at Bedales School and Christ's College, Cambridge. After his Military Service, he joined the Foreign Service in 1955. His diplomatic career included posts in Indonesia, Italy, Poland, the Soviet Union, and a number of positions at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. From 1988 to 1992 Braithwaite was ambassador in Moscow, … - Horace Dawson
Horace Greeley Dawson, Jr. (b. January 30, 1926) was an American diplomat. Dawson was born in Augusta, Georgia. He was a diplomat, and served as the United States Ambassador to Botswana. After graduation from high school, Dawson attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania for two years before being drafted into the U.S. Army, serving a two-year tour of duty in Europe and the Philippines. Dawson then returned to Lincoln University to finish his studies, … - John P. Davies
John Paton Davies Jr. (6 April, 1908-23 December, 1999) was an American diplomat and Medal of Freedom recipient. He was one of the China Hands, whose careers in the Foreign Service were destroyed by McCarthyism. - Bismarck Myrick
Bismarck Myrick is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Liberia (1999-2002) and Lesotho (1995-1998). He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and a decorated Vietnam War hero. The government of Lesotho awarded him the Most Meritorious Order of Mohlomi, its highest honor to a non-citizen, for his work in promoting democracy. He also served as Principal Officer in Cape Town, South Africa from 1993 to 1995, and as Principal Officer in Durban, … - Salome Zourabichvili
Salomé Zourabichvili is a Georgian politician and diplomat, former Foreign Minister of Georgia and a former diplomat in the French service. Zourabichvili was born in Paris on March 18, 1952, into a family of Georgian political emigrants. She attended some of the most prestigious French schools, such as the "Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)", and began a master's program at Columbia University in New York in the academic year of 1972-1973, … - Lawrence Dennis
Lawrence Dennis (December 25, 1893 - August 20, 1977) was an American diplomat, consultant and author. - Vincent M. Battle
Vincent Martin Battle was the United States ambassador to Lebanon from August 13 2001 to August 16 2004. The Teaneck, New Jersey native received his Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and his Master's (1967) and Ph.D. from Columbia University (1974). Ambassador Battle joined the Foreign Service in 1977. Prior to entering the Foreign Service, Ambassador Battle worked in Uganda for 10 years, as well as in Pakistan and Libya. - Donald Maitland
Sir Donald Maitland (born 16 August 1922) served as British Prime Minister Edward Heath's press secretary (1970-1974). Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Maitland joined the Foreign Service in 1947. After serving as Heath's press secretary, he was appointed as British Ambassador to the United Nations. Maitland's expertise is in the Middle East were he served during World War II. Between 1956 and 1960 he was Director of the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Lebanon. - David Schickler
David Schickler (born July 30, 1969 in Rochester, New York) is an American author who has published two books, "Kissing in Manhattan" and "Sweet and Vicious". Heavily influenced as a child by the Bible and Edith Hamilton's "Mythology", Schickler graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Foreign Service in 1991 and from Columbia University in 1995. - Najmuddin Shaikh
Najmuddin Shaikh (1939-) is a former Pakistani diplomat. Shaikh, from Sindh province, joined the Foreign Service of Pakistan in 1961. During his 38 years of service, he served as Pakistan's Ambassador to West Germany, Canada, the USA and Iran, and from 1994 to 1997 Shaikh served as Pakistan's Foreign Secretary. His wife, Raana Shaikh, has served as the Managing Director of Pakistan Television, and earlier as Secretary for the Ministry of Culture. - Herschel Johnson
Herschel Vespasian Johnson (1894 - 1966) was a U.S. diplomat from North Carolina. He served as a U.S. foreign service officer from 1921-1953, whose career included posts in Europe, Latin America, and with the United Nations. He served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden between 12 Dec 1941 and 28 Apr 1946 1946. Thereafter, he served as the acting U.S. ambassador to the United Nations between 1946 and 1947. - James Howard Holmes
James Howard Holmes was born April 1, 1943, the second son of Robert Usher and Bertha Jeannette Cook Holmes. He is a 1965 graduate of Colgate University, as well as, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and the National War College. He joined the Foreign Service in 1967 and has served overseas in Pakistan, New Zealand, Norway, and Latvia. He is married and has two daughters and four grandchildren. - R. H. Bruce Lockhart
Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart KCMG (2 September 1887 - 27 February, 1970), was a journalist, author, secret agent, British diplomat in Moscow, and later in Prague, and footballer. - Gerald A. Drew
Gerald Augustin Drew — also known as Gerald A. Drew — was a career foreign service officer. Born in San Francisco, California, Drew was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He served in the following positions: U.S. Vice Consul in Pará, 1929; U.S. Minister to Jordan, 1950; U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, 1954-57; Haiti, 1957-60. He was assigned to Haiti by the Eisenhower administration at the beginning of the regime of François Duvalier.
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