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Embassy of Cuba

2630 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 797-8518 | Email: recepcion@usadc.embacuba.cu

In January 2021, Lianys Torres Rivera became the first woman ever to represent Cuba as ambassador to the US, replacing Havana’s longtime man in Washington, José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez. Prior to her arrival, she was Cuba’s ambassador to Vietnam (2017-20).

Cuba

Ambassador

Lianys Torres

Rivera

Czech Republic

Born in 1971, Torres Rivera earned a bachelor’s in international economic relations from Havana’s Instituto Superior de Relaciones Internacionales Raúl Roa García in 1994. She was a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Havana.

Assigned first to the North American division of Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minrex), Torres Rivera worked at the then-Cuban Interests Section in Washington as an attaché (1995-96). Her other overseas postings include stints as third secretary at the Cuban Embassy in Denmark (1998-2002), and as first secretary at the Cuban Embassy in Malaysia (2007-11).

From 2015 to 2017, Torres Rivera was part of the Cuban delegation that met with US authorities to discuss the renewal of bilateral relations and the reopening of embassies in both countries. She also belonged to several US-Cuba bilateral commissions dealing with regulatory issues, human rights, direct postal service, renewal energy and banking.

Embassy of Cyprus

2211 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 462 5772 | Email: info@cyprusembassy.net

Marios Lysiotis has been the ambassador of Cyprus to the US since September 2018. Born in 1958, Lysiotis studied philosophy and political science in France, and joined the Cypriot Foreign Service in 1991 as a diplomatic advisor to the president.

Overseas assignments included Sweden (1994-97) and Belgium (1997-2001). From 2001 to 2003, he served in the Cyprus Question Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Lysiotis went on to become permanent representative of Cyprus to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France (2004-06), deputy director of the president’s Diplomatic Office (200608), and ambassador to Austria (2008-11), with concurrent accreditation to the UN in Vienna as well as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Before his current assignment, Lysiotis was ambassador to France and permanent delegate to UNESCO (2011-16), and diplomatic advisor to the minister of defense (2016-18).

Lysiotis and his wife, Eleni Michaelidou-Lysiotou, have a daughter.

Embassy of the Czech Republic

3900 Spring of Freedom Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 274-9100 | Email: washington@embassy.mzv.cz

In September 2022, career diplomat Miloslav Stašek became the new Czech ambassador in Washington, replacing longtime ambassador Hynek Kmoníček, who was reassigned to Vietnam.

Stašek—nominated by the previous government of Andrej Babis—is a former ambassador to Egypt and India. Born in 1971 in Plzeň, he studied at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, as well as Ain Shams University in Cairo.

Stašek has considerable experience in the Middle East, serving as deputy head of mission at the Czech Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1999-2004); chargé d’affaires at the Czech mission in Kuwait (2004-05); director of the Czech Foreign Ministry’s Middle East and Africa Department (2005-07) and Czech ambassador to Egypt and Sudan (2007-10).

From 2010 to 2015, Stašek was ambassador to India, with concurrent accreditation to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, later becoming deputy minister at the Foreign Ministry (2016-17). He was appointed as the ministry’s secretary of state in November 2017, a position he held until his current posting to Washington.

Married with three children, Stašek is fluent in English, Arabic and Spanish in addition to his native Czech.

Ambassador

Christina M.

Lassen

Embassy of Denmark

3200 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 234-4300 | Email: wasamb@um.dk

Christina Markus Lassen recently replaced Lone Dencker Wisborg as Denmark’s ambassador to the US. She was born in 1970 and holds a master’s degree in international relations and business from Copenhagen Business School.

Lassen began her career in the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997, and one of her first positions was that of first secretary in the political department of the Danish Embassy in Washington (2000-04). She was also special advisor at the Prime Minister’s Office (200405); head of the Foreign Ministry’s Executive Secretariat (2005-09) and Danish ambassador to Syria and Jordan (2009-12).

Among other things, she was also director for public diplomacy and communications at the Foreign Ministry (2013-14) and director for stabilization and security policy (2014-15). In 2015, Lassen was sent to Beirut as the EU ambassador to Lebanon and remained there until 2019. In addition, Lassen did a fellowship at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (2012-13) and was a diplomat-in-residence at the American University in Beirut.

Embassy of Djibouti

1156 15th Street NW, Suite #515, Washington, DC 20005

Tel: +1 202 331-0270 | Email: info@djiboutiembassyus.org

Mohamed Siad Doualeh is Djibouti’s ambassador to the US and its permanent representative to the United Nations. Before his UN post, he was special envoy to the Process for Somalia as a member of the IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) Facilitation Committee.

Ambassador

Mohamed Siad

Doualeh

Chargé d’affaires

Judith-Anne

Rolle

Born in 1968, Doualeh is married and has four children. He holds a master’s degree in British and American literature and civilization. Fluent in French and English, with acceptable written command of Spanish and Arabic, the ambassador frequently speaks at academic and diplomatic institutions on issues such as conflict resolution, human rights, piracy and maritime security.

While representing his tiny East African country in Geneva (2006-15), Doualeh was—among other things—vice-president of the Human Rights Council, nominated by the African Group; chairman of the Francophone Group of Ambassadors (2009); and chairman of the Committee for Development and Intellectual Property (2012-14).

Embassy of Dominica

1701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite #200, Washington, DC 20006

Tel: +1 202 364-6781 | Email: embdomdc@aol.com

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Sonía Guzmán

Embassy of the Dominican Republic

1715 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 332-6280 | Email: embassy@drembassyusa.org

Sonía Guzmán presented her credentials virtually to President Trump in December 2020 as Santo Domingo’s new ambassador to the United States.

Guzmán, 73, is not a career diplomat. An academic most of her professional life, she’s wellknown in the Dominican Republic as being the daughter of President Antonio Guzmán, who led his country from 1978 until his death from suicide in 1982, at the age of 71.

Before her current appointment, Guzmán held several notable positions. Early on, she worked at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCCM) in Santiago, first as director of the library, then administrative vice-rector, remaining there during the 1970s. During the presidency of her father, she served as deputy administrative secretary, and then, when Hipólito Mejía was president, from 2000 to 2004, she was secretary of industry and commerce. In that capacity, she led negotiations for the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA).

Guzmán is a widow of the late José María Hernández.

Embassy of Ecuador

2535 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 234-7200 | Email: embassy@ecuador.org

Ivonne A-Baki says women have come a long way since her arrival in Washington 23 years ago as Ecuador’s first female ambassador—but that the battle for gender equality is far from over.

A-Baki is now serving her second stint as Ecuador’s envoy to the United States.

The daughter of a Lebanese immigrant-turned-banana exporter, A-Baki was born in Guayaquíl and grew up speaking only Spanish. At age 16, she traveled to Lebanon to visit her mother’s family; there she learned Arabic, English and French.

Ivonne A-Baki

A-Baki remained in Beirut for 19 years, married, raised three children and also served as Ecuador’s honorary consul in Lebanon. But in 1975, the country’s civil war broke out, forcing her to leave the Middle East permanently.

In 1998, Ecuador’s then-president, Jamil Mahuad, asked A-Baki to help end border hostilities with neighboring Peru. She did, establishing herself in the process as an adept negotiator. A talented artist, A-Baki also unsuccessfully ran for president of Ecuador In in 2002, then went on to serve as minister of foreign trade. Before returning to Washington, she was also Ecuador’s ambassador to Qatar.

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Motaz Zahran

Embassy of Egypt

3521 International Court NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 895-5400 | Email: consulate@egyptembassy.net

Motaz Zahran, Egypt’s ambassador to the US, graduated with a law degree from Morocco’s Université Mohammed-V de Rabat, then practiced law in his native Cairo before joining the Egyptian Foreign Service.

Among his previous posts, Zahran was Egypt’s assistant foreign minister and chief of cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and ambassador to Canada. From 2001 to 2005, Zahran was posted to India. He also worked for the assistant foreign minister for Arab and Mideast affairs as well as Egypt’s permanent mission to the League of Arab States in Cairo, and Egypt’s UN mission in New York.

Zahran, no newcomer to Washington, was a political counselor, congressional affairs officer and chargé d’affaires at the Egyptian Embassy in DC (2007-11). He’s also advised the foreign minister on the Mideast peace process, specifically the Israel-Palestine issue. His expertise is on nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation and security. As such, he belongs to the UN’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and the UN Institute for Disarmament Research. Zahran is married with three children. He speaks his native Arabic, and fluent in both English and French.

Embassy of El Salvador

1400 16th Street NW, Suite #100, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 595-7500 | Email: infoeeuu@rree.gob.sv

Milena Mayorga Valera, the 1995 Miss El Salvador, became her country’s ambassador to the US in September 2020.

Before arriving in Washington, Mayorga was a member of the Legislative Assembly (201820). During her two years as a lawmaker, she served on the Children and Gender Equality Committee as well as the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Among other things, Mayorga also introduced an anti-corruption bill and the creation of the Permanent Commission against Corruption, the International Commission against Impunity in El Salvador, and the Law for the Repatriation of Stolen or Evaded Capital.

Before assuming her position as ambassador, she presented a bill to facilitate access to credit for women entrepreneurs and business owners, with a special focus on those who have been victims of domestic violence. She also sponsored a bill to prohibit the use of polyethylene plastic bags as well as other initiatives to eliminate single-use plastic.

Mayorga holds a degree in communications and has completed additional studies at Louisiana’s Tulane University. Before entering Congress, she developed a successful career in marketing and communications. Mayorga is married and has two children.

Embassy of Equatorial Guinea

2020 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 518-5700 | Email: lengono@egembassydc.com

Miguel Ntutumu Evuna Andeme has been Equatorial Guinea’s ambassador to the US since 2015. Before that, he was general director of cabinet at the presidency’s Department of Missions in Malabo, where his responsibilities included preparing statements, speeches and correspondence for President Teodoro Obian Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled the country since August 1979. Previously, he was director-general for administrative affairs for the presidency and a procurement and contracts advisor for Hess Corp. in Equatorial Guinea.

Evuna Andema obtained his bachelor’s degree in international studies from La Roche College in Pittsburgh; while at La Roche, he co-founded the International Forum of African Students.

Equatorial Guinea, Africa’s only Spanish-speaking country, is home to 1.4 million inhabitants and boasts Africa’s highest per-capita income thanks to petroleum exports.

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Embassy of Eritrea

1708 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 319-1991 | Email: embassyeritrea@embassyeritrea.org

Embassy of Estonia

1990 K Street NW, Suite #430, Washington, DC 20006

Tel: +1 202 588-0101 | Email: embassy.washington@mfa.ee

Kristjan Prikk has been Estonia’s ambassador to the US since May 2021, marking his third stint in Washington. His previous postings here were as trade and economic officer (200206) and defense counselor (2010-13).

Before his current job, Prikk spent three years as permanent secretary of Estonia’s Ministry of Defense, where he managed the country’s defense forces, its foreign intelligence service and the Centre for Defense Investments. From 2015 to 2017, he was director of national security.

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Kristjan Prikk

Before joining the Ministry of Defense, Prikk worked at the Foreign Ministry on issues related to NATO’s enlargement and its partnership with Russia, Ukraine and Georgia in the Security Policy and Arms Control Bureau (2006-07). He was also a foreign trade and WTO specialist at the Foreign Ministry in Tallinn (1999-2002).

Prikk has a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Estonia’s University of Tartu (2000) and a master’s from the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Program (2013).

Prikk, a reserve officer in the Estonian Defense Forces, belongs to the Kaitseliit (Estonian Defense League). He and his wife, Liis, have two daughters and a son.

Embassy of Eswatini

1712 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 234-5002 | Email: embassy@eswatini-usa.com

Biography not available.

Ambassador

Seleshi Bekele

Awulachew

Embassy of Ethiopia

3506 International Drive NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 364-1200 | Email: ethiopia@ethiopianembassy.org

Seleshi Bekele Awulachew, Ethiopia’s new ambassador in Washington, is also a member of parliament. From 2001 to 2004, Seleshi was dean and leader of Ethiopia’s Arbaminch Water Technology Institute, which he built into a full-fledged university; from 2004 to 2010, he was regional representative and head of the International Water Management Institute.

A water and climate change specialist at the African Climate Policy Center (2010-14), he served as senior inter-regional advisor for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in New York (2014-16). From 2016 to 2021, he was Ethiopia’s minister of water, irrigation and energy.

From October 2021 to January 2022, Seleshi advised the prime minister as chief negotiator of transboundary water and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) at a ministerial level. As ambassador, he retains the chief negotiator role for GERD, a $5 billion project slated to become the largest hydroelectric project in Africa.

Seleshi has published over 30 articles, book chapters and books, and over 60 research reports and working papers. Married and the father of two sons, he enjoys reading and playing basketball.

Embassy of Fiji

1707 L Street NW, Suite #200, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 917 208-4560 | Email: info@fijiembassydc.com

Biography not available.

Embassy of Finland

3301 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 298-5800 | Email: Sanomat.was@formin.fi

Mikko Hautala became Finland’s ambassador to the US in September 2020, following a four-year assignment in Moscow as ambassador to Russia (2016-20) and four years as foreign policy advisor to the president (2012-16).

Early in his career, Hautala served as attaché at Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (200102), and later as attaché at the Finnish Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine (1998-2001). Later, he was first secretary at Finland’s mission to the EU in Brussels (2002-07) and diplomatic advisor to the foreign minister (2007-11). After four years as foreign policy advisor to the president. In August 2020, the Confederation of Finnish Industries awarded Hautala its “Ambassador Prize” for his efforts to promote the interests of Finnish companies in Russia.

Hautala was born in 1972 in Seinäjoki, Finland, and studied at Helsinki University, where he earned master’s degrees in political science and philosophy. He holds the military rank of captain (reserve). Besides his native Finnish, Hautala is fluent in English, Swedish, Russian, Ukrainian and Polish. He’s married to fellow career diplomat Heli Hautala; they have two sons.

General Marquis De Lafayette Statue

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Embassy of France

4101 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20007

Tel: +1 202 944-6000 | Email: info@embafrance-us.org

Chargé d’affaires

Aurélie Bonal

The Gambia

Messone

Embassy of Gabon

2034 20th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 797-1000 | Email: info@gabonembassyusa.org

Noël Nelson Messone has been ambassador of the West African nation of Gabon since December 2022, A married father of three, he was born in 1960 in Ovan, a small town in northeastern Gabon.

Before his current appointment, Messone belonged to Gabon’s National Assembly, serving there as vice-chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. He’s also held various cabinet positions in the past, including those of deputy minister of foreign affairs (200709); minister of forestry and environment (2011-12); minister of foreign affairs (2017-18) and minister of government relations (2018-19).

Previous posts include director-general of state protocol (2017); senior political advisor to the president of Gabon (2016); Brussels-based ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands (2010-15); and permanent representative to the UN in New York (2011-14).

From 1995 to 1999, Messone was associate country director of the US Peace Corps in Gabon, heading its education and rural development activities.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Messone attended the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce in Lexington, Kentucky, where he earned a master’s in international management. As an undergraduate, he attended Omar Bongo Ondimba University in Libreville, Gabon.

Embassy of The Gambia

5630 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011

Tel: +1 202 785-1399 | Email: info@gambiaembassydc.us

Momodou Lamin Bah, accountant general of The Gambia from 2014 until 2022, was appointed as The Gambia’s new ambassador in Washington. He replaced Dawda Fadera, who died in office on Feb. 20, 2022.

Bah, a chartered accountant, is an information technology expert with training in computer science and data processing at the University of Science & Technology in Ghana. He’s also certified in the governance of enterprise IT (CGEIT) and is a certified information systems auditor and information security manager.

From 2009 to 2014, Bah was a consultant with the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) project within the Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs. And before that, he was a financial management specialist at IFMIS.

In addition, Bah has been finance and administrative manager at the Sunbeach Hotel & Resort in Bakau (2003-05); internal audit manager for the International Bank for Commerce (Gambia) Ltd. (2002-03); IT manager for that same bank (1995-99), and data processing officer at International Trypanotolerance Centre (1985-95).

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David Zalkaliani

Embassy of Georgia

1824 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 387-2390 | Email: embgeo.usa@mfa.gov.ge

In May 2022, David Zalkaliani—most recently foreign minister and then deputy prime minister of the Republic of Georgia—was named as his country’s new ambassador to the United States.

A graduate of Georgia’s Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University majoring in international law, Zalkaliani joined Georgia’s Foreign Ministry soon after the ex-Soviet republic declared independence in 1992. In 1996, Zalkaliani was posted to Georgia’s embassy in Austria and its permanent mission to the Vienna-based OSCE, serving there until 2000. Among other things, he was part of talks on Russia’s withdrawal of military bases from Georgian territory.

Returning to Vienna as Georgia’s deputy permanent representative to the OSCE (2001-02), he later became a senior counselor at Georgia’s embassy in Washington (2002-04), during which US-Georgian defense cooperation intensified.

Zalkaliani was Georgia’s ambassador to Uzbekistan (2004-07) and Belarus (2008-09), but entered politics in 2009 to create the Free Democrats. That party was part of the Georgian Dream coalition which won 2012 parliamentary elections.

Zalkaliani is fluent in English and Russian. He is married and has two daughters.

Embassy of Germany

4645 Reservoir Road NW, Washington, DC 20007

Tel: +1 202 298-4000 | Email: info@washington.diplo.de

Emily Margarethe Haber has been German ambassador to the US since June 2018.

Before coming to Washington, Haber—the first woman ever to represent Germany in that post— held a number of high-level positions. From 2014 to 2018, she was state secretary in charge of homeland security and migration policy during the height of Europe’s immigration crisis.

In 2009, she was named political director at the Foreign Office in Berlin, and in 2011, state secretary, making her the first woman to hold either post. Haber also served in various posts at the German Embassy in Moscow. She headed both the German Federal Foreign Office’s OSCE division and was its deputy director-general for the Western Balkans.

Haber attended schools in New Delhi, Bonn, Paris, Brussels, Washington and Athens.

From 1975 to 1980, she studied history and ethnology in Cologne, earning her PhD with a dissertation on German foreign policy during the 1911 Morocco crisis. Earlier in her career, she served at the German Embassy in Ankara.

Haber is married to former diplomat Hansjörg Haber. The couple has two sons.

Embassy of Ghana

3512 International Drive NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 686-4520 | Email: info@ghanaembassydc.org

Hajia Alima Mahama, Ghana’s ambassador to the US since June 2021, has a long track record of activism in gender equality issues and the protection of children.

Before her current appointment, Mahama was a member of Parliament and minister of local government and rural development (2017-21). Before that, she was minister of women and children’s affairs (2005-09) and deputy minister for trade and industry. As such, she was instrumental in passage of Ghana’s Domestic Violence Act and the Human Trafficking Act, as well in changes in Ghana’s National Health Insurance Law to improve maternal health.

From 1987 to 2001, she was senior planner and gender development coordinator of the government’s Northern Region Rural Integrated Program (NORRIP), which was funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Mahama is a graduate of Ghana Law School. She holds a master’s in development studies from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. She was also a Humphrey Fellow at New Jersey’s Rutgers University, where she studied urban policy and planning.

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Eleftherios Venizelos (1864 - 1936) was one of the most prominent Greek and European leaders of the 20th century. He led the Greek national liberation movement and contributed greatly to the expansion of Greece and advancement of liberal-democratic policies.

Located at 217 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008

Embassy of Greece

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Located at Lafayette Square, 1600 H Street NW Washington DC 20006

2217 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 939-1300 | Email: gremb.was@mfa.gr

Alexandra Papadopoulou, born in 1957, has been Greece’s ambassador to the US since February 2020. She has a law degree from the University of Athens and a master’s in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Papadopoulou attended the Greek Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy (1981-82), later helping negotiate the future of US military bases in Greece. In 1987, she became Greek consul in New Orleans, moving to Jordan in 1991 as deputy head of mission at the Greek Embassy in Amman. She was also Greek consul general in Toronto (1994-99).

In 2000, Papadopoulou was promoted to head the Greek Liaison Office in Pristina, Kosovo. She then became deputy director of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of Balkan Affairs; deputy permanent representative to the UN (2002-07); head of the Greek Liaison Office in Skopje (2007-12); and director-general for European affairs at the Foreign Ministry (2013-14). Her other posts include Greek permanent representative to the EU in Brussels (2014-15), ambassador to Uruguay and Paraguay (2015-16) and head of the EU’s Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (2016-19).

Papadopoulou speaks English and French in addition to her native Greek.

Embassy of Grenada

1701 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 265-2561 | Email: embassy@grenadaembassyusa.org

Yolande Yvonne Smith, the former Miss Grenada 1989, became her Caribbean country’s ambassador to the US in November 2018. A 25-year veteran of the diplomatic service, her first posting was at the Grenada’s consulate general in Toronto (1995-99).

From 1999 to 2008, she was a staffer at the Embassy of Grenada in Washington, and in 2099, she joined the IMF’s Procurement and Strategic Budget Management Division. In addition, Smith was Grenada’s deputy consul-general in Miami (2015-18).

Smith has a diploma in youth and social work from Guyana’s Commonwealth Youth Program, as well as a certificate in information systems training from Toronto’s Ryerson University, as well as a bachelor’s degree and MBA—with an emphasis on international marketing—from Strayer University in Washington.

Smith was the first female president of the Grenada National Youth Council and co-host of a one-hour radio program. She has one daughter and two grandchildren.

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Embassy of Guatemala

2220 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 745-4953 | Email: infoembaguateeuu@minex.gob.gt

Prior to his recent appointment as Guatemala’s ambassador to the US, Alfonso Quiñónez Lemus was the public affairs manager for Cementos Progreso in Guatemala—the largest and most populous of Central America’s seven nations.

Quiñónez Lemus, an official of Organization of American States (OAS) since 2001, was most recently executive secretary for the Summit of the Americas, as well as secretary of external relations.

Quiñónez Lemus served for five years as executive secretary for integral development and director-general of the Inter-American Agency for Cooperation and Development. Before working at the OAS, he represented Guatemala in Spain and the United States as deputy chief of mission in Madrid and Washington, respectively, and as Guatemala’s permanent representative to the OAS.

The ambassador has law degrees from Guatemala’s Francisco Marroquín University and Georgetown University; he also studied at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs.

Quiñónez Lemus sits on the boards of the US-Guatemala Business Council, the InterAmerican Foundation and the Pan-American Development Foundation. He is married with two children.

Embassy of Guinea

2112 Leroy Place NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 986-4300 | Email: ambaguiwashington@mae.gov.gn

Embassy of Guinea-Bissau

No information available.

Guyana

Ambassador

Samuel Hinds

Embassy of Guyana

2490 Tracy Place NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 265-6900 | Email: guyanaembassydc@verizon.net

Samuel Hinds, Guyana’s ambassador to the US since July 2021, enjoys the unique distinction of having been his country’s prime minister and president.

Born in 1943, Hinds attended the University of New Brunswick on a scholarship from Demerara Bauxite Co., a subsidiary of ALCAN (Aluminum Company of Canada). Following his 1967 graduation with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, he began a long career with Demerara Bauxite, rising to director of product quality and R&D in 1977 and leaving the company in 1992 to enter politics.

Hinds was a longtime member of Parliament on the People’s Progressive Party ticket, serving as prime minister and vice-president with responsibility for energy and electricity, mines and minerals, telecommunications and the postal system from 1992 until his retirement in 2015. In addition, for nine months in 1997, Hinds was executive president of Guyana—South America’s only English-speaking republic— following the death of longtime President Cheddi Jagan.

Embassy of Haiti

2311 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 332-4090 | Email: amb.washington@diplomatie.ht

Bocchit Edmond, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, began his diplomatic career in 1990 as an attaché at Haiti’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1993, he was promoted to first secretary while serving as minister of tourism and creative industries. He later facilitated Haiti’s entry into the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), and from 2001 to 2003 was a counselor at the Haitian Embassy in Kingston, Jamaica.

Ambassador Bocchit Edmond

From 2003 to 2011, Edmond was chargé d’affaires at the Haitian Embassy in Panama, with responsibility for Central America and Colombia. From 2012 to 2016, he represented Haiti before the Organization of American States (OAS), headed Haiti’s embassy in London (201618) and was appointed foreign minister in September 2018—a position he held until his current appointment in early 2020.

Edmond has a bachelor’s degree in legal studies from the State University of Haiti, and a master’s in international relations from Oxford. The ambassador speaks Haitian Creole, French, Spanish and English.

Embassy of the Holy See (Vatican)

3339 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 339-7121 | Email: nuntiususa@nuntiususa.org

Archbishop Christophe Pierre was born in 1946 in the French city of Rennes. Educated in Madagascar, France and Morocco, he attended the Major Seminary of the Archdiocese of Rennes (1963-69) and the Catholic Institute of Paris (1969-71).

Pierre was ordained a priest in 1970, earned a master’s in sacred theology (Paris, 1971) and a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome (1977), and immediately began his service in the Vatican diplomatic corps.

First appointed to represent the Vatican in New Zealand and the Pacific islands (1977-81), he went on to serve in Mozambique (1981); Zimbabwe (1982-86); Cuba (1986-89); and Brazil (1989-91). In 1991, he was appointed head of the Vatican’s permanent mission to the United Nations in Geneva, remaining there until 1995.

Pierre was named Apostolic Nuncio to Haiti (1995-99); Uganda (1999-2007) and Mexico (2007-16). On April 12, 2016, Pope Francis appointed him Apostolic Nuncio to the United States. Pierre speaks French, Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Ambassador

Javier Efraín Bú

Soto

Embassy of Honduras

1220 19th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 699-7702 | Email: embassy@hondurasemb.org

Javier Efraín Bu Soto became the new Honduran ambassador to the United States on Dec. 12, 2022, representing his country’s first female president in history, Xiomara Castro.

Bu, who had served as chargé d’affaires since February 2022, was first assigned to Washington in 2009 as legal attaché, during a time of grave political crisis following the removal of then-President Manuel Zelaya, in what was widely condemned as a military coup d’état.

Previously, Bu worked in the private sector as managing director of Group BG, where he managed State Farm and other insurance franchises in the Washington DC metro area. Before that, he was a public servant in Honduras—first as a law clerk at the nation’s Supreme Court, and later for the Institute of Property’s land title division, where he worked on a World Bank-funded program on issuance of rural land titles.

Bu has a dual master’s degree from Washington’s American University in law and government, and in international business law. He also has a J.D. from the Technological University of Central America (UNITEC) in Tegucigalpa. He is fluent in English and Spanish.

Embassy of Hungary

3910 Shoemaker Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 362-6730 | Email: info.was@mfa.gov.hu

Szabolcs Takács, born in Budapest in 1971, is Hungary’s ambassador to the US.

Takács has a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature from Croatia’s University of Zagreb (1999), and master’s degrees in political science, European studies and law, and international relations (2002) from Hungary’s University of Pécs.

Takács joined Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2002. His first assignment was in the Asia-Pacific department, where he was a desk officer for Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, China, India and the Korean Peninsula.

Ambassador

Szabolcs Takács

From 2005 to 2009, he was deputy head of mission at Hungary’s embassy in Qatar, then held various jobs within the Office of the Deputy State Secretary; among his responsibilities were security policy, Asia-Pacific affairs, EU affairs and global affairs. In 2019, he became the ministerial commissioner for Brexit, a post he held until his current assignment in Washington.

Mahatma Gandhi Statue

Embassy of India

Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and a leading figure in India’s independence movement against British rule. He devoted his life and work to serve and uplift the downtrodden, and was one of the most influential and significant figures of the 20th century.

Ellertsdóttir

Embassy of Iceland

2900 K Street NW, Suite #509, Washington, DC 20007

Tel: +1 202 265-6653 | Email: washington@mfa.is

Career diplomat Bergdís Ellertsdóttir—born in 1962 and the mother of four children—has been Iceland’s ambassador to the US since 2019.

She studied political science, English and history at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Heidelberg, Germany (1983-85), and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in English from the University of Iceland in Reykjavik (1985-87). Ellertsdóttir went on to earn her master’s degree in European studies from England’s University of Essex (1988-89).

Ellertsdóttir began her diplomatic career as first secretary in the trade department of Iceland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1991-95), later becoming deputy head of mission at the Embassy of Iceland in Bonn, Germany (1995-98).

From 1998 to 2000, she was a political officer at NATO headquarters in Brussels, then became deputy director of the Iceland Foreign Ministry’s political department (2000-03).

Later, Ellertsdóttir became foreign affairs advisor to the prime minister (2005-06); deputy secretary-general of the European Free Trade Association in Brussels (2007-12); chief negotiator for the Iceland-China free trade agreement (2012); head of Iceland’s mission to the EU (201418), and finally permanent representative of Iceland to the UN in New York (2018-19).

Embassy of India

2107 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 939-7000 | Email: psamb.washington@mea.gov.in

Taranjit Singh Sandhu, India’s ambassador to the US since February 2020, has served in Washington twice before. The 34-year veteran of the Indian Foreign Service was the embassy’s deputy chief of mission from 2013 to 2017, and congressional liaison from 1997 to 2000.

Prior to his current stint in Washington, Sandhu was India’s high commissioner to Sri Lanka (2017-20). Earlier, he had headed the commission’s political wing (2000-04).

Born in 1963, Sandhu graduated with history honors from St. Stephens’ College in Delhi, and later a master’s degree in international relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He began his diplomatic career at the Indian Embassy in Moscow (1990-92). Following the Soviet Union’s breakup, he was sent to open a new embassy in Ukraine; he led that mission’s political and administrative wings in Kyiv from 1992 to 1994.

Sandhu

In addition to various assignments within the Ministry of External Affairs, Sandhu was with India’s permanent mission to the UN in New York (2005-09) and consul-general of India in Frankfurt (2011-13). Sandhu and his wife, Reenat—a secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs— have two children.

Embassy of Indonesia

2020 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 775-5200 | Email: washington.kbri@kemlu.go.id

Rosan Perkasa Roeslani, born in Jakarta in 1968, became Indonesia’s ambassador to the US in October 2021.

Prior to this assignment, Roeslani chaired the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (2015-21). Earlier in his career, he was financial advisor to the Association of Indonesian Batik Cooperation (1997-2002) and deputy treasurer of the Indonesian Young Entrepreneurs Association (2005-08).

Ambassador

Roeslani

Chargé

As a leader in the private sector representative, Roeslani was chief of the Indonesian Omnibus Law on Job Creation Task Force and the chairman of that National Board of Arbitration’s advisory board (2019-2021). He’s also vice-chairman of the Indonesian Sharia Economic Society’s Courtesy Board. Roeslani headed Indonesia’s contingent for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and was vicechairman of the COVID-19 Response and National Economic Recovery Committee (2020-21). He is also chairman of the Indonesian Weightlifting Association/PABSI since 2015.

The ambassador has a bachelor’s degree in finance from Oklahoma State University (1988-92) and an MBA from European University in Antwerp, Belgium (1993-94). He is married with three children.

Embassy of Iraq

3421 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20007

Tel: +1 202 742-1600 | Email: info@iraqiembassy.us

Embassy of Ireland

2234 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 462-3939

Geraldine Byrne Nason became Ireland’s 19th ambassador to the US in August 2022, replacing Daniel Mulhall, who had served in the job since 2017.

A native of Drogheda in Ireland’s County Louth, Byrne Nason holds an honorary doctorate of law degree from Maynooth University, as well as master’s and bachelor’s degrees in literature from Saint Patrick’s College in Maynooth.

Byrne Nason, a passionate advocate of human rights and gender equality, joined the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in 1981. From 2005 to 2011 she served as Ireland’s deputy permanent representative, and later ambassador, to the EU.

As second secretary-general in the Department of the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) from 2011 to 2014, she ranked as the highest-ranking female public servant in Ireland. In 2014, she was inducted into the Royal Irish Academy, Ireland’s highest academic honor.

Byrne Nason was Irish ambassador to France (2014-17), and from 2017 until her current posting, she represented Ireland at the United Nations, where she led a successful campaign to win a seat for Ireland on the UN Security Council. Byrne Nason and her husband, Bryan Nason—a retired former diplomat who was Ireland’s ambassador to Belgium and NATO—have one son.

Israel

Ambassador

Michael Herzog

Embassy of Israel

3514 International Drive NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 364-5500 | Email: consular@washington.mfa.gov.il

Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to the US since November 2021, is the son of Israel’s sixth president, Chaim Herzog, and brother of the current president, Yitzhak Herzog.

A retired IDF brigadier general, the ambassador has held senior positions in Israel’s Ministry of Defense from 2001 to 2009. Among his jobs: head of the IDF’s Strategic Planning Division (1998-2001), deputy head of the Strategic Planning Division (1995-98); member of the Intelligence Corps (1974-94); and infantry soldier (1973 Yom Kippur War).

Since 1993, Herzog has played a key role in the Arab-Israeli peace process, participating in the Wye Plantation summit, the Camp David talks, the Taba negotiations, the Annapolis summit and the 2013-14 peace talks led by Secretary of State John Kerry.

Prior to his nomination, Herzog was an international fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute.

A graduate of Israel’s prestigious National Defense College, Herzog received a bachelor’s degree from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a master’s from Haifa University. He and his wife, Shirin, a corporate lawyer, have two children.

Embassy of Italy

3000 Whitehaven Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 612-4400 | Email: amb.washington@cert.esteri.it

Mariangela Zappia, Italy’s first female ambassador to the US, was also the first Italian woman ever to become permanent representative to NATO in Brussels (2014-16)—and the first woman to serve as Italy’s permanent representative at the United Nations in New York (2018-21).

Born in 1959, Zappia began her career at the Italian Embassy in Dakar, Senegal (1986-90), and at Italy’s consulate general in New York (1990-93). Serving also with the NATO media task force during the Kosovo conflict (1997-2000), Zappia coordinated major events under the Italian presidency of the G8 in 2009, including those focusing on violence against women.

Mariangela Zappia

Zappia holds master’s and post-graduate degrees in political science and international relations from the University of Florence. Fluent in English and French, and with a good knowledge of Spanish, Zappia has written widely on reforming the UN Security Council, and on Italy’s contribution to UN peacekeeping operations.

The mother of two daughters, Zappia belongs to the International Gender Champions Network. In 2019, the Fondazione Marisa Bellisario gave her its “Mela d’Oro” [Golden Apple] award for helping advance women’s rights in public institutions.

Embassy of Jamaica

1520 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 452-0660 | Email: ambassador@jamaicaembassy.org

Audrey Marks has been Jamaica’s ambassador to the US since 2016. It’s the second time in that role for Marks, who had that same job from 2010 to 2012—making her not only Jamaica’s first female ambassador in Washington, but the first ever to be assigned to the same post twice. Before becoming a diplomat, Marks established six companies including a 100-acre banana exporting farm, a transport firm and a real-estate venture. She’s best known for having founded Paymaster (Jamaica) Ltd., an online transaction agency.

Among other things, Marks has also served on several private and public-sector boards, and was the first female president of the American Chamber of Commerce of Jamaica. In 2000, she was nominated as Ernst & Young’s “Caribbean Entrepreneur of the Year.” Likewise, Florida International University named her “Business Leader of the Year” in 2003 and 2010. Marks holds bachelor’s degree in business from the University of the West Indies, and an MBA from Florida’s Nova University.

Ambassador

Koji Tomita

Embassy of Japan

2520 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 238-6700 | Email: jicc@ws.mofa.go.jp

Koji Tomita, Japan’s ambassador to the US since February 2021, is a seasoned diplomat with 40 years of experience in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Most recently, Tomita served as Tokyo’s man in South Korea, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s personal representative at the G20 Summit in Osaka and as Japan’s ambassador to Israel (2015-18). His other overseas postings have included London (2006-09) and Paris (1997-99).

Tomita’s relationship with the United States began when he attended college in North Carolina for a year. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1981, he’s also held leadership positions in US-Japan relations, including director-general of the ministry’s North American Affairs Bureau (2013-15) and deputy chief of mission at the Japanese Embassy in Washington (2012-13).

The ambassador and his wife, Noriko, have two daughters and a son. In his spare time, he writes, and has published two books in Japanese: Churchill: Leadership in Crisis and Margaret Thatcher: Iron Lady Who Changed Politics

Embassy of Jordan

3504 International Drive NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 966-2664 | Email: hkjconsular@jordanembassyus.org

Dina Kawar has been Jordan’s ambassador to the US since 2016. For two years before that, she was the Hashemite Kingdom’s permanent representative to the United Nations, leading the Jordanian delegation during its non-permanent membership on the UN Security Council and becoming the first Arab woman ever to preside over that body.

She also helped organize a UN General Assembly meeting in September 2016 on the refugee and migrant crisis.

Ambassador

Dina Kawar

Prior to her position in New York, Kawar was Jordan’s ambassador to France (2001-13), with concurrent accreditation to UNESCO and the Holy See since 2002. She was also non-resident ambassadors to Portugal from 2005 to 2013.

Kawar has a master’s degree in international affairs from New York’s Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Mills College in Oakland, Calif. She also studied at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs (1986-87). Kawar speaks Arabic, French and English.

Embassy of Kazakhstan

1401 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 232-5488 | Email: washington@mfa.kz

Ashikbayev Yerzhan was named ambassador of Kazakhstan to the United States in April 2021. The former Soviet republic is home to only 19 million people yet ranks as the world’s ninth-largest country by size.

Yerzhan graduated in 1998 from Al-Farabi Kazakh State National University with a bachelor’s degree in international relations. In 2012, Yerzhan earned a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Prior to his appointment in Washington, Ashikbayev spent eight years as Kazakhstan’s deputy foreign minister (2013-21) served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan (2013-2021).

Before becoming deputy minister, he was deputy head of the Prime Minister’s Office. In 2012-13, Yerzhan was chief of the Foreign Policy Centre of the Kazakhstan’s presidential administration. He speaks Russian, English, Turkish and French.