Ambassadors of the United States

Flag of ambassadors of the United States

This is a list of ambassadors of the United States to individual nations of the world, to international organizations, and to past nations, as well as ambassadors-at-large.

Ambassadors are nominated by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.^[1] An ambassador can be appointed during a recess, but he or she can only serve as ambassador until the end of the next session of Congress unless subsequently confirmed.^[2] Ambassadors serve "at the pleasure of the President", meaning they can be dismissed at any time.

An ambassador may be a career Foreign Service Officer or a political appointee. In most cases, career foreign service officers serve a tour of approximately three years per ambassadorship whereas political appointees customarily tender their resignations upon the inauguration of a new president. As embassies fall under the State Department's jurisdiction, ambassadors answer to the Secretary of State.

Current U.S. ambassadors

Host country	List	Ambassador	Website	Confirmed
Afghanistan	List	Michael McKinley	Kabul	December 9, 2014
Albania	List	Donald Lu	Tirana	November 20, 2014
Algeria	List	Joan Polaschik	Algiers	July 29, 2014
Andorra[3]	List	James Costos	Madrid	August 19, 2013
Angola	List	Helen La Lime	Luanda	May 15, 2014
Antigua and Barbuda[4]	List	Linda Swartz Taglialatela	Bridgetown	December 9, 2015
Argentina	List	Noah Mamet	Buenos Aires	December 2, 2014
Armenia	List	Richard Mills	Yerevan	December 16, 2014
Australia	List	John Berry	Canberra	August 1, 2013
Austria	List	Alexa Wesner	Vienna	August 1, 2013
Azerbaijan	List	Robert Cekuta	Baku	December 16, 2014
Bahamas	List	Vacant since November 21, 2011 Lisa Johnson, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Nassau	July 9, 2014
Bahrain	List	William Roebuck	Manama	November 18, 2014
Bangladesh	List	Marcia Bernicat	Dhaka	November 18, 2014
Barbados[4]	List	Linda Swartz Taglialatela	Bridgetown	December 9, 2015
Belarus	List	Vacant since March 12, 2008 Scott Rauland, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Minsk	June 30, 2014
Belgium	List	Denise Bauer	Brussels	August 1, 2013
Belize	List	Carlos Moreno	Belmopan	May 14, 2014
Benin	List	Lucy Tamlyn	Cotonou	October 8, 2015
Bhutan	The United States does not maintain formal diplomatic relations with Bhutan. Informal contact through the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.
Bolivia	List	Vacant since September 10, 2008 Peter Brennan, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	La Paz	June 2014
Bosnia and Herzegovina	List	Maureen Cormack	Sarajevo	November 19, 2014
Botswana	List	Earl Miller	Gaborone	November 19, 2014
Brazil	List	Liliana Ayalde	Brasilia	August 1, 2013
Brunei	List	Craig Allen	Bandar Seri Begawan	November 18, 2014
Bulgaria	List	Eric Seth Rubi	Sofia	December 9, 2015
Burkina Faso	List	Tulinabo Mushingi	Ouagadougou	July 9, 2013
Burma (Myanmar)[5]	List	Scot Marciel	Rangoon	February 9, 2016
Burundi	List	Dawn Liberi	Bujumbura	September 22, 2012
Cambodia	List	William A. Heidt	Phnom Penh	August 5, 2015
Cameroon	List	Michael Hoza	Yaoundé	July 29, 2014
Canada	List	Bruce Heyman	Ottawa	March 12, 2014
Cape Verde	List	Donald Helfin	Praia	December 12, 2014
Central African Republic[6][7][8]	List	Jeffrey Hawkins	Bangui	October 8, 2015
Chad	List	James Knight	N'Djamena	May 23, 2013
Chile	List	Michael Hammer	Santiago	March 6, 2014
China	List	Max Baucus	Beijing	February 6, 2014
Colombia	List	Kevin Whitaker	Bogotá	April 1, 2014
Comoros[9]	List	Robert Yamate	Antananarivo	November 19, 2014
Congo-Brazzaville	List	Stephanie Sullivan	Brazzaville	August 1, 2013
Congo-Kinshasa	List	James Swan	Kinshasa	August 1, 2013
Costa Rica	List	Stafford Haney	San José	May 23, 2015
Croatia	List	Julieta Noyes	Zagreb	June 24, 2015
Cuba	List	Vacant since July 20, 2015 Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Chargé d'Affaires a.i[10]	Havana	July 20, 2015
Cyprus	List	Kathleen Ann Doherty	Nicosia	August 5, 2015
Czech Republic	List	Andrew Schapiro	Prague	July 23, 2014
Denmark	List	Rufus Gifford	Copenhagen	August 1, 2013
Djibouti	List	Thomas Kelly	Djibouti	June 25, 2014
Dominica[4]	List	Linda Swartz Taglialatela	Bridgetown	December 9, 2015
Dominican Republic	List	Wally Brewster	Santo Domingo	November 14, 2013
East Timor	List	Karen Clark Stanton	Dili	November 17, 2014
Ecuador	List	Todd C. Chapman	Quito	December 9, 2015
Egypt	List	Robert Beecroft	Cairo	June 26, 2014
El Salvador	List	Jean Elizabeth Manes	San Salvador	December 9, 2015
Equatorial Guinea	List	Julie Furuta-Toy	Malabo	October 22, 2015
Eritrea	List	Vacant since July 19, 2010 Louis Mazel, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Asmara	July 10, 2014
Estonia	List	James Desmond Melville, Jr.	Tallinn	August 5, 2015
Ethiopia	List	Patricia Haslach	Addis Ababa	August 1, 2013
Fiji[11]	List	Judith Beth Cefkin	Suva	November 19, 2014
Finland	List	Charles Adams	Helsinki	June 24, 2015
France[12]	List	Jane Hartley	Paris	September 16, 2014
Gabon[13]	List	Cynthia Akuetteh	Libreville	July 30, 2014
Gambia	List	Patricia Alsup	Banjul	October 8, 2015
Georgia	List	Ian Kelly	Tbilisi	June 24, 2015
Germany	List	John Emerson	Berlin	August 1, 2013
Ghana	List	Robert Porter Jackson	Ghana	October 22, 2015
Greece	List	David Pearce	Athens	August 1, 2013
Grenada[4]	List	Linda Swartz Taglialatela	Bridgetown	December 9, 2015
Guatemala	List	Todd Robinson	Guatemala	September 16, 2014
Guinea-Bissau[14]	List	James Zumwalt	Bissau VPP	November 18, 2014
Guinea-Conakry	List	Dennis Hankins	Conakry	October 22, 2015
Guyana	List	Perry Holloway	Georgetown	August 5, 2015
Haiti	List	Peter F. Mulrean	Port-au-Prince	August 5, 2015
Holy See (Vatican City)	List	Ken Hackett	Vatican	August 1, 2013
Honduras	List	James Nealon	Tegucigalpa	July 15, 2014
Hungary	List	Colleen Bell	Budapest	December 2, 2014
Iceland	List	Robert Barber	Reykjavik	December 12, 2014
India	List	Richard Verma	New Delhi	December 9, 2014
Indonesia	List	Robert Blake	Jakarta	November 5, 2013
Iran	List	No diplomatic relations since April 7, 1980. Informal contact via the U.S. Interests Section in the Swiss embassy. Virtual Embassy Tehran since December 2011
Iraq	List	Stuart Jones	Baghdad	June 26, 2014
Ireland	List	Kevin O'Malley	Dublin	September 18, 2014
Israel	List	Daniel Shapiro	Tel Aviv	May 26, 2011
Italy[15]	List	John Phillips	Rome	August 1, 2013
Ivory Coast	List	Terence McCulley	Abidjan	August 1, 2013
Jamaica	List	Luis Moreno	Kingston	November 20, 2014
Japan	List	Caroline Kennedy	Tokyo	October 16, 2013
Jordan	List	Alice Wells	Amman	June 16, 2014
Kazakhstan	List	George Krol	Astana	November 20, 2014
Kenya	List	Robert Godec	Nairobi	January 2, 2013
Kiribati[11]	List	Judith Beth Cefkin	Suva	November 19, 2014
Kosovo	List	Gregory Delawie	Pristina	June 24, 2015
Kuwait	List	Douglas Silliman	Kuwait City	July 10, 2014
Kyrgyzstan	List	Sheila Gwaltney	Bishkek	August 5, 2015
Laos	List	Dan Clune	Vientiane	August 1, 2013
Latvia	List	Nancy Pettit	Riga	June 24, 2015
Lebanon	List	Vacant since October 31, 2015 Richard Jones, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Beirut	October 31, 2015
Lesotho	List	Matthew Harrington	Maseru	September 16, 2014
Liberia	List	Vacant since November 19, 2015 Mark Boulware, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Monrovia	November 19, 2015
Libya	List	Peter William Bodde	Tripoli	November 19, 2015
Liechtenstein[16]	List	Suzan LeVine	Bern	May 1, 2014
Lithuania	List	Deborah McCarthy	Vilnius	January 2, 2013
Luxembourg	List	David McKean	Luxembourg	February 12, 2016
Macedonia	List	Jess Baily	Skopje	December 16, 2014
Madagascar[9]	List	Robert Yamate	Antananarivo	November 19, 2014
Malawi	List	Virginia Palmer	Lilongwe	December 12, 2014
Malaysia	List	Joseph Y. Yun	Kuala Lumpur	August 1, 2013
Maldives[17]	List	Atul Keshap	Colombo	August 5, 2015
Mali	List	Paul Folmsbee	Bamako	May 23, 2015
Malta	List	G. Kathleen Hill	Valletta	December 9, 2015
Marshall Islands	List	Thomas Hart Armbruster	Majuro	August 2, 2012
Mauritania	List	Larry Andre	Nouakchott	July 29, 2014
Mauritius[18]	List	Shari Villarosa	Port Louis	September 22, 2012
Mexico	List	Vacant since June 2015 William H. Duncan, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Mexico City	June 2015
Micronesia	List	Doria Rosen	Kolonia	June 29, 2012
Moldova	List	James Pettit	Chişinău	November 20, 2014
Monaco[12][19]	List	Jane Hartley	Paris	September 16, 2014
Mongolia	List	Jennifer Zimdahl Galt	Ulaanbaatar	August 5, 2015
Montenegro	List	Margaret Ann Uyehara	Podgorica	December 16, 2014
Morocco	List	Dwight Bush	Rabat	March 13, 2014
Mozambique	List	H. Dean Pittman	Maputo	November 19, 2015
Namibia	List	Thomas Daughton	Windhoek	September 17, 2014
Nauru[11]	List	Judith Beth Cefkin	Suva	November 19, 2014
Nepal	List	Alaina B. Teplitz	Kathmandu	August 5, 2015
Netherlands	List	Tim Broas	The Hague	March 13, 2014
New Zealand[20]	List	Mark Gilbert	Wellington	December 12, 2014
Nicaragua	List	Laura Farnsworth Dogu	Managua	August 5, 2015
Niger	List	Eunice Reddick	Niamey	July 21, 2014
Nigeria	List	James Entwistle	Abuja	August 1, 2013
North Korea	The United States does not maintain diplomatic relations with North Korea. Limited consular matters handled by the Swedish embassy.[21]
Norway	List	Samuel D. Heins	Oslo	February 12, 2016
Oman	List	Marc Jonathan Sievers	Muscat	November 19, 2015
Pakistan	List	David Hale	Islamabad	August 5, 2015
Palau[22]	List	Amy Hyatt	Koror	December 12, 2014
Panama	List	John D. Feeley	Panama	December 9, 2015
Papua New Guinea[23]	List	Catherine Ebert-Gray	Port Moresby	December 9, 2015
Paraguay	List	Leslie Ann Bassett	Asunción	November 18, 2014
Peru	List	Brian Nichols	Lima	June 19, 2014
Philippines[22]	List	Philip Goldberg	Manila	November 14, 2013
Poland	List	Paul W. Jones	Warsaw	August 5, 2015
Portugal	List	Robert Sherman	Lisbon	February 12, 2014
Qatar	List	Dana Shell Smith	Doha	July 10, 2014
Romania	List	Hans G. Klemm	Bucharest	August 5, 2015
Russia	List	John Tefft	Moscow	July 31, 2014
Rwanda	List	Erica Barks-Ruggles	Kigali	November 17, 2014
Saint Kitts and Nevis[4]	List	Linda Swartz Taglialatela	Bridgetown	December 9, 2015
Saint Lucia[4]	List	Linda Swartz Taglialatela	Bridgetown	December 9, 2015
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[4]	List	Linda Swartz Taglialatela	Bridgetown	December 9, 2015
Samoa[20]	List	Mark Gilbert	Wellington	December 12, 2014
San Marino[15]	List	John Phillips	Florence San Marino VPP	August 1, 2013
São Tomé and Príncipe[13]	List	Cynthia Akuetteh	Libreville	July 30, 2014
Saudi Arabia	List	Joseph Westphal	Riyadh	March 26, 2014
Senegal[14]	List	James Zumwalt	Dakar	November 18, 2014
Serbia	List	Kyle R. Scott	Belgrade	December 9, 2015
Seychelles[18]	List	Shari Villarosa	Port Louis	September 22, 2012
Sierra Leone	List	John Hoover	Freetown	September 11, 2014
Singapore	List	Kirk Wagar	Singapore	August 1, 2013
Slovakia	List	Vacant since July 8, 2015 J. Liam Wasley, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Bratislava	September 2015
Slovenia	List	Brent Hartley	Ljubljana	November 20, 2014
Solomon Islands[23]	List	Catherine Ebert-Gray	Port Moresby	December 9, 2015
Somalia[24][25]	List	Vacant since January 5, 1991 David H. Kaeuper, Special Representative	Somalia VPP
South Africa	List	Patrick Gaspard	Pretoria	August 1, 2013
South Korea	List	Mark Lippert	Seoul	September 18, 2014
South Sudan	List	Mary Phee	Juba	June 24, 2015
Spain[3]	List	James Costos	Madrid	August 19, 2013
Sri Lanka[17]	List	Atul Keshap	Colombo	August 5, 2015
Sudan[26]	List	Vacant since February 7, 1996 Jerry Lanier, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Khartoum	May 13, 2014
Suriname	List	Edwin Nolan, Jr.	Paramaribo	October 8, 2015
Swaziland	List	Lisa J. Peterson	Mbabane	November 19, 2015
Sweden	List	Azita Raji	Stockholm	February 12, 2016
Switzerland[16]	List	Suzan LeVine	Bern	May 1, 2014
Syria[27]	List	Vacant since February 28, 2014 Michael Ratney, Special Envoy	Damascus	July 27, 2015
Taiwan	Since January 19, 1979, diplomatic relations have been carried out by the American Institute in Taiwan Taipei Office
Tajikistan	List	Elisabeth I. Millard	Dushanbe	November 19, 2015
Tanzania	List	Mark Childress	Dar es Salaam	April 7, 2014
Thailand	List	Glyn T. Davies	Bangkok	August 5, 2015
Togo	List	David Gilmour	Lomé	October 8, 2015
Tonga[11]	List	Judith Beth Cefkin	Tonga	November 19, 2014
Trinidad and Tobago	List	John Estrada	Port of Spain	February 12, 2016
Tunisia	List	Daniel Rubinstein	Tunis	October 8, 2015
Turkey	List	John Bass	Ankara	September 17, 2014
Turkmenistan	List	Allan Mustard	Ashgabat	November 19, 2014
Tuvalu[11]	List	Judith Beth Cefkin	Suva	November 19, 2014
Uganda	List	Deborah R. Malac	Kampala	November 19, 2015
Ukraine	List	Geoffrey Pyatt	Kiev	July 9, 2013
United Arab Emirates	List	Aashir Ahmed	Abu Dhabi	November 17, 2014
United Kingdom[28]	List	Matthew Barzun	London	August 1, 2013
Uruguay	List	Vacant since December 10, 2014 Brad Freden, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.	Montevideo	December 10, 2014
Uzbekistan	List	Pamela Spratlen	Tashkent	November 20, 2014
Vanuatu[23]	List	Catherine Ebert-Gray	Port Moresby	December 9, 2015
Venezuela	List	Vacant since July 16, 2010 Lee McClenny, Chargé d'Affaires a.i.[29]	Caracas	July 7, 2014
Vietnam	List	Theodore Osius	Hanoi	November 17, 2014
Yemen	List	Matthew Tueller	Sana’a	March 27, 2014
Zambia	List	Eric Schultz	Lusaka	September 17, 2014
Zimbabwe	List	Harry K. Thomas, Jr.	Harare	October 22, 2015
Abkhazia	The Republic of Abkhasia is not recognized by the United Nations or by the United States.
Northern Cyprus	The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is not recognized by the United Nations or by the United States.
Palestine	The Palestinian State is not recognized by the United States.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is not recognized by the United Nations or by the United States[30]
South Ossetia	The Republic of South Ossetia is not recognized by the United Nations or by the United States.

Ambassadors to international organizations

Current ambassadors from the United States to international organizations:

Ambassadors-at-Large

Current Ambassadors-at-Large from the United States with worldwide responsibility:

Other Chiefs of Mission

Senior diplomatic representatives of the United States hosted in posts other than embassies. Unlike other consulates, these persons report directly to the Secretary of State.

Host country	List	Ambassador	Title	Website	Appointed
Curaçao[31]	List	Hormazd Kanga	Vacant since July 2015 Acting Consul General and Chief of Mission	Curaçao	July 2015
Hong Kong[32]	List	Clifford Hart	Consul General and Chief of Mission	Hong Kong	July 30, 2013
Jerusalem[33]	List	Donald Blome	Consul General and Chief of Mission	Jerusalem	July 27, 2015
Macau[32]	List	Clifford Hart	Consul General and Chief of Mission	Hong Kong	July 30, 2013
Taiwan	List	Kin W. Moy	Director	Taipei	June 8, 2015

Special Envoys, Representatives and Coordinators

These diplomatic officials report directly to the Secretary of State. Many oversee a portfolio not restricted to one nation, often an overall goal, and are not usually subject to Senate confirmation.^[34]

Nations without exchange of ambassadors

• Bhutan: According to the U.S. State Department, "The United States and the Kingdom of Bhutan have not established formal diplomatic relations; however, the two governments have informal and cordial relations".^[35] Informal contact with the nation of Bhutan is maintained through the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi.^[35]

• Iran: On April 7, 1980, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran after the 1979 Iranian Revolution.^[36] On April 24, 1981, the Swiss government assumed representation of U.S. interests in Tehran, and Algeria assumed representation of Iranian interests in the United States.^[37] Currently, Iranian interests in the United States are represented by the government of Pakistan. The U.S. Department of State named Iran a "State Sponsor of Terrorism" on January 19, 1984.^[38]

• North Korea: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is not on friendly terms with the United States, and while talks between the two countries are ongoing, there is no exchange of ambassadors. Sweden functions as Protective Power for the United States in Pyongyang and performs limited consular responsibilities for U.S. citizens in North Korea.^[39]

• Taiwan: With the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China in 1979, the United States has not maintained official diplomatic relations with Taiwan. Relations between Taiwan and the United States are maintained through an unofficial instrumentality, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, with headquarters in Taipei and field offices in Washington, D.C., and twelve other U.S. cities. The Taipei Office of the American Institute in Taiwan, a non-profit, public corporation, functions as a de facto embassy, performing most consular functions and staffed by Foreign Service Officers who are formally "on leave".^[40]

Selected past ambassadors

Well-known past ambassadors from the United States:

Ambassadors killed in office

Eight United States Ambassadors have been killed in office – six of them by armed attack and the other two in plane crashes.^[41]

Ambassadors to past countries

• Czechoslovakia
• East Germany
• Hawaii
• North Yemen
• South Vietnam
• South Yemen
• Texas
• Yugoslavia

See also

• Chief of Protocol of the United States
• List of ambassadors to the United States
• List of United States Foreign Service Career Ambassadors

Notes and references

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ambassadors of the United States.

• Websites of U.S. Embassies and Consulates
• Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission
• United States Mission to the United Nations
• US ambassadors killed in the line of duty

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