PHILIP JAISOHN STATUE

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Philip Jaisohn was a Korean-American activist in the struggle for Korea’s independence.

Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben Statue

Friedrich Wilhelm Von Steuben (1730 - 1794) was a Prussian military officer who played a significant role in the American Revolutionary war by reforming the Continental Army into a disciplined fighting force.

KOREA (SOUTH)

Ambassador

Lazarus O.

Amayo

Embassy of Kenya

2249 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 387-6101 | Email: information@kenyaembassydc.org

Lazarus O. Amayo has been Kenya’s ambassador to the US since May 2019. Prior to his current post, he was permanent representative to the UN, and before that, Kenya’s high commissioner to the UK. Amayo also represented Kenya at the International Maritime Organization and has held top positions within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was commissioner to Malawi and Zambia (2006-10), and high commissioner to India with concurrent accreditation to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Singapore (1999-2004).

Before becoming a diplomat, Amayo was CEO of Catering Levy Trustees and a member of parliament (1989-92) for the Karachuonyo constituency. He began as a teacher at Ogande Girls High School in 1979. Amayo has a BA from India’s Spicer Memorial College, and an MA in political science from the University of Delhi.

Amayo belongs to the Kenya Institute of Management and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Married with three children, he enjoys reading, tennis and chess.

Embassy of Korea (South)

2450 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 939-5600 | Email: generalusa@mofa.go.kr

Cho Tae-yong replaced Lee Soo-Hyuck as South Korea’s ambassador to the US in September 2022. A first-term lawmaker for the People Power Party where he serves on the parliamentary foreign affairs and unification committee, Cho has a 30-year diplomatic career and is an expert on both US-Korean ties and North Korean nuclear issues.

After joining the Foreign Ministry in 1980, he was Seoul’s chief negotiator in the defunct six-party talks on North Korean denuclearization, director-general of the North American Affairs Bureau, and eventually Seoul’s ambassador to Australia and Ireland.

His other posts include first vice-foreign minister (2014-15) and first deputy director of the Blue House National Security Office (2015-17) in the government of Park Geun-hye.

Cho earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Seoul National University and studied at England’s University of Oxford. He’s also taught at Yonsei University and at Tokyo’s Keio University.

Cho is the son-in-law of Lee Bum-suk, the foreign minister who died in a 1983 assassination attempt against President Chun Doo Hwan in Burma. The Rangoon bombing, blamed on North Korean agents, killed 17 South Koreans.

Embassy of Kosovo

2175 K Street NW, Suite #300, Washington, DC 20037 Tel: +1 202 450-2130 | Email: embassy.usa@rks-gov.net

Ilir Dugolli is Kosovo’s new ambassador to the US, replacing Vlora Çitaku. Formerly ambassador to Turkey, Dugolli was among the first diplomats to establish Kosovo’s missions abroad following the country’s declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008

A graduate of the University of Prishtinë, Dugolli also studied at Yale. From 2002 to 2004, he advised the prime minister in Kosovo’s first democratically elected government. He also served as a legal expert during the 2007-08 negotiations on Kosovo’s political status.

Upon independence in 2008, Dugolli was named to head Kosovo’s mission in Brussels as envoy to Belgium, NATO and the EU. From 2013 to 2016, he was posted to Stockholm as ambassador to Sweden, and non-resident ambassador to Norway, Finland, Iceland and the Baltic states.

In addition, Dugolli directed NATO and security policies at Kosovo’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2017-19). He’s participated in various civil society initiatives including the Project on Ethnic Relations, the Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED), Democracy for Development (D4D) and the Kosovo-American Education Fund.

Kyrgyzstan

Chargé d’affaires Hamad Al-Mekrad

Embassy of Kuwait

2940 Tilden Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 966-0702 | Email: washington@mofa.gov.kw

Embassy of Kyrgyzstan

2360 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 449-9822 | Email: kgembassy.usa@mfa.gov.kg

Bakyt Amanbaev, Kyrgyzstan’s ambassador to the US since April 2021, was born in 1969 when the country was still a Soviet republic. In 1996, he graduated from Kyrgyz State National University, and in 1998 earned his MBA from the Bishkek International School of Business Management.

Amanbaev served as senior consultant for Jogorku Kenesh—a member of Parliament (200004)—and was also correspondent for Radio Azattky, the Kyrgyz-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Bishkek (2000-07).

In addition, Amban was director of the Kyrgyz State Broadcasting Company’s advertising and commercial agency (2005-07) and a senior lecturer of political science at Kyrgyz State National University (2005-08), where he completed post-graduate studies in 2010 as a candidate in political science. He also took courses at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2012, Amanbaev studied at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Serving briefly as vice-mayor of the city of Osh in 2010, Amanbaev went on to become ombudsman of the republic (2013-15) and chief of staff of the Kyrgyz government (2020-21) before his current job.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran (1883 - 1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, essayist and artist, best known as the author of The Prophet, a book of prose poetry published in 1923.

Inphachanh

Embassy of Laos

2222 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 328-9148 | Email: embasslao@gmail.com

Sisavath Inphachanh became Laotian ambassador to the United States in May 2022

Inphachanh’s diplomatic career spans 33 years on behalf of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic—one of only five communist states left in the world. In 1989, he joined the Eastern Europe department of his country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in 1995 he served a two-year stint in its Asia-Pacific and Africa department.

Other postings included third secretary at the Laotian Embassy in Thailand (1997-2000); director of the Foreign Ministry’s Lao-Thai Affairs division and the Asia-Pacific and Africa department (2001-04); first secretary at the Laotian Embassy in Washington (2005-06) and principal secretary to the deputy prime minister and foreign minister (2006-12).

Inphachanh was named director-general of the Foreign Ministry’s consular department in 2013 and remained there until his posting as ambassador to Australia and New Zealand (2018-22). A graduate of Kiev State University in Ukraine (at that time still part of the Soviet Union) with a master’s degree in international relations; Inphachanh later received a second master’s degree in the same subject from Australia’s Wollongong University. He and his wife, Khamphan Inphachanh, have two children.

Embassy of Latvia

2306 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 328-2840 | Email: embassy.usa@mfa.gov.lv

Māris Selga became Latvia’s ambassador to the US in September 2019. Before this assignment, he was Latvia’s ambassador to China.

Selga joined the Latvian Foreign Service in 1994—three years after Latvian independence from the Soviet Union— where he held various positions including counselor at the Policy Planning Group, head of the Americas Division, counselor for security issues, director of the Second Political (Bilateral) Department and director-general of the Consular and Diplomatic Facilities Directorate.

Selga has previously been posted to Latvian missions in Denmark and the US. He was Latvia’s first residing ambassador in Egypt, with non-resident accreditation to Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. He was also an observer in both the African Union and the League of Arab States.

The ambassador is a graduate of the University of Latvia’s Faculty of History and Philosophy.

Embassy of Lebanon

2560 28th Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Chargé d’affaires

Waël Hachem

Tel: +1 202 939-6300 | Email: info@lebanonembassyus.org

Ambassador

Tumisang

Mosotho

Embassy of Lesotho

2511 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 797-5533 | Email: lesothoembassy@verizon.net

Tumisang Mosotho is Lesotho’s new ambassador to the United States.

Before coming to Washington, Mosotho was chief delegate at the government’s Lesotho Highlands Water Commission, a binational body established under a treaty between Lesotho and South Africa—which completely surrounds the Maryland-sized kingdom. The commission oversees the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).

Mosotho joined the LHWP as a delegate in 2018. During his tenure there, he developed a keen interest in the livelihoods and welfare of the communities displaced by the massive hydroelectric dam and tunnel project.

Before joining the commission, Mosotho had a distinguished career as an attorney in private practice. His main focus areas were personal injury claims, constitutional law and human rights. In 2013-14 he took a short break from private practice and served as senior private secretary to Lesotho’s then-prime minister, Tom Thabane.

Mosotho holds law degrees from the National University of Lesotho in the capital, Maseru. He is married with three children.

Embassy of Liberia

5201 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20011

Tel: +1 202 723-0437 | Email: Amb.office@Liberianembassyus.org

Biography not available.

Ambassador

Dowana

Chargé d’affaires

Khaled Daief

Embassy of Libya

1460 Dahlia Street NW, Washington, DC 20012

Tel: +1 202 944-9601 | Email: info@embassyoflibyadc.com

Ambassador

Georg Sparber

Embassy of Liechtenstein

2900 K Street NW, Suite #602-B, Washington, DC 20007

Tel: +1 202 331-0590 | Email: info@embassyli.org

With only 38,500 inhabitants in a territory the size of the District of Columbia, Liechtenstein is one of the world’s wealthiest countries on a per-capita basis.

Before becoming Liechtenstein’s ambassador to the US in 2021, Georg Sparber was his principality’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations in New York (2017-21), where his portfolio included disarmament, peace and security, and political issues.

From 2014 to 2016, Sparber served as deputy head of mission at Liechtenstein’s embassy in Vienna, with accreditation to Austria and the Czech Republic. He was also assigned to two Vienna-based bodies, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

From 2010 to 2014, Sparber was posted to Liechtenstein’s UN mission in New York, where he supervised development, human rights, global governance and elections. He joined the office of Foreign Affairs in 2009 after earning a doctorate in philosophy from Switzerland’s University of Lausanne, where he also finished graduate studies.

Sparber and his wife, Yvonne, have five children.

Embassy of Lithuania

2622 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 234-5860 | Email: amb.us@urm.lt

Audra Plepyté, Lithuania’s ambassador to the US since May 2021, earned both her bachelor’s and master’s degree in philosophy from Vilnius University, and a certificate in diplomatic studies from Oxford.

Plepyté began her diplomatic career in 1994 in the Multilateral Relations Division of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry. Over the next 20 years, she was posted to Copenhagen, New York and Brussels. She served as Lithuania’s ambassador to Spain (2010-14), director of the EU Department at the Foreign Ministry in Vilnius (2014-17) and permanent representative to the UN (2017-21) before taking up her current post in Washington.

Ambassador

Audra Plepyté

Plepyté recently used her embassy to inaugurate the bipartisan Friends of Belarus Congressional Caucus. Among the invited guests: Belarusian activist Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, widely regarded winner of her country’s August 2020 presidential elections. In 2024, the Lithuanian Embassy will celebrate 100 years of continuous operation.

“Even during Soviet times, we always regarded ourselves as occupied,” Plepyté said recently. “This embassy functioned the whole time thanks to the US non-recognition policy. That gave us hope that one day we’d be free.”

Ambassador

Nicole BintnerBakshian

Embassy of Luxembourg

2200 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 265-4171 | Email: washington.amb@mae.etat.lu

Nicole Bintner-Bakshian, ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the United States, was born in Pétange—a town in southwestern Luxembourg—in 1970.

She studied at the University of Luxembourg, the European School of Management (EAP-ESCP) at Paris, Oxford and Berlin, and at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand.

In 1999, after early assignments in Vietnam, Pakistan and India, Bintner-Bakshian joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2000, she became deputy head of protocol and served for four years as a private secretary to the foreign minister before joining the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines, as advisor to the executive board.

Bnitner-Bakshian returned to diplomatic service as deputy chief of mission in Beijing and Bangkok, until she was appointed Luxembourg’s first ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. In 2017, she set up her tiny country’s first embassy in Dakar, Senegal—also covering Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger—while also serving as Luxembourg’s special envoy to the Sahel region. Bintner-Bakshian is married and has two daughters. She speaks fluent German, French, English and Luxembourgish.

Embassy of Madagascar

2374 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 265-5525 | Email: contact@us-madagascar-embassy.org

Chargé d’affaires

Amielle Marceda

Embassy of Malawi

2408 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 721-0270 | Email: info@malawiembassy-dc.org

Esme Jynet Chombo began serving as Malawi’s ambassador to the US in June 2021. Before that, she spent 18 years at a judge with the High Court of Malawi (2003-21), also overseeing management of the High Court’s Lilongwe District Registry.

Chombo’s adjudication experience spans 28 years since she became a chief resident magistrate in 1986, supervising all magistrates with responsibility of all lower courts in Malawi’s Northern Region. From 1995 to 2002, Chombo was a company secretary for both Press Corp. Ltd. And Press Agriculture Ltd.

Chombo has also served on the Malawi Judicial Service Commission (1990-95) and was a council member for central and eastern Africa in the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association (1992-95). From 2008 to 2019, she chaired the Malawi Prison Service Commission as well as the country’s Special Law Commission on the Review of the Adoption of Children Act (2009-12).

Chombo holds a master’s degree in women’s law and human rights from the University of Zimbabwe (2008); a master’s in strategic management from England’s University of Derby (2001), and a bachelor of law degree from the University of Malawi (1986).

Benito Ju Rez Statue

Benito Juárez (1806 - 1872) was a Mexican politician, lawyer, and the 26th president of Mexico. Juárez is regarded as a national hero who fought foreign occupation under the emperor Maximilian.

Located at Virginia Avenue and New Hampshire Avenue NW Washington, DC 20037

Embassy of Malaysia

3516 International Court NW, Washington DC 20008

Chargé d’affaires

Fairuz Adli Mohd

Rozali

Tel: (202) 572-9700 | Email: mwwashington@kln.gov.my

Embassy of Mali

2130 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 332-2249 | Email: infos@mali.embassy.us

Sékou Berthe

Chargé d’affaires

Melanie Bonnici

Bennett

Sékou Berthe, Mali’s new ambassador to the United States, was formerly special counsel to the president from October 2021 until his current posting to Washington in June 2022. Berthe was formerly an associate professor and lecturer at the University of Law and Political Science in Bamako, the Malian capital. He also represented Amnesty International in Bamako, promoting education on human rights and advocating on behalf of imprisoned activists. He later worked as a law clerk in Bamako. In New York, he was an interpreter at Manhattan Family Court, as well as a law enforcement agent with New York City’s Sanitation Department. Berthe is the former chair of Mali’s Movement for Youth Rights, a delegate of the Malian Constitutional Court for supervising general elections, and a member of London-based Penal Reform International.

Berthe graduated from the University of Mali’s National School of Administration in 1995. He also holds a master’s degree in international relations from the City College of New York, as well as a PhD in international relations from the University of Ghana. The ambassador speaks fluent French, English and Mandingo.

Embassy of Malta

2017 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 530-9750 | Email: maltaembassy.washington@gov.mt

Ambassador

Gerald M. Zackios

Embassy of the Marshall Islands

2433 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 234-5414 | Email: info@rmiembassyus.org

Gerald M. Zackios was appointed ambassador of the Marshall Islands to the US in 2016. The independent republic he represents—a Pacific archipelago of 59,000—exists in a Compact of Free Association with the United States since 1986.

In 1989, Zackios earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Papua New Guinea, then returned home as assistant attorney general. In 1992, he received a master’s from Malta’s International Maritime Law Institute. Following a series of promotions, he became attorney general in 1996, later winning a seat in the country’s Nitijela, or Parliament, in 1999.

From 2001 to 2007, Zackios was foreign minister; he served in the Nitijela until 2012. Among other things, he renegotiated the Marshall Islands’ Compact of Free Association in 2004. Following an unsuccessful reelection bid to the Nitijela in 2011, Zackios started his own law firm. In 2013, he became regional director for the Pacific Community in Pohnpei, Micronesia, retaining that post until his current appointment.

Zackios and his wife, Viola, have nine children. His hobbies include fishing, gardening, tennis and basketball.

Embassy of Mauritania

2129 Leroy Place NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 232-5700 | Email: info@mauritaniaembassy-usa.org

Cissé Mint Cheikh Ould Boide, born in 1970, has been Mauritania’s ambassador to the US since March 2021. Before that, she was Mauritania’s permanent representative to UNESCO in Paris (2019-21).

From 2014-2018 Mrs. Boide worked as an international consultant in the policy and strategy field as well as management, project evaluation and sustainable development.

She served as Mauritania’s minister of culture, youth and sports (2009-13) and president of the country’s National Education, Science and Culture Commission. From 2002 to 2009, she held various positions within Mauritania’s Ministry of Commerce, Craft and Tourism, helping to publicize the North African country as a tourist destination.

Boide earned a bachelor’s degree in tourism and hotel management from the International Institute of Tourism (ISIT) in Tangier, Morocco. She also earned advanced degrees from the University of Lille, France.

The ambassador has in-depth knowledge of computer science, programming, configuration, modeling and development of internet-based systems. She speaks French, Arabic, Spanish and English, is married and has a son.

Embassy of Mauritius

1709 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 244-1491 | Email: washingtonemb@govmu.org

Purmanund Jhugroo, ambassador of Mauritius to the US, is a former member of Parliament and the country’s former minister of housing and lands.

Born in 1960 in Holyrood Vacoas, Jhugroo is a pharmacist by profession and belongs to the island’s Medical Council, its Dental Council, its Pharmacy Board and its trust fund for specialized medical care. He’s also a member of the Mauritius Oceanographic Institute. Since 1983, he’s belonged to the center-left, Hindu-dominated Militant Socialist Movement (MSM)— the largest single party in the National Assembly of Mauritius. Jhugroo was mayor of Vacoas/ Phoenix (1991-93), a member of the Politbureau since 1997, and MSM’s treasurer since 2005.

From 2002 to 2005, Jhugroo was general manager of the Outer Islands Development Corp. and has been a member of the Mauritius Parliament since 2005.

Akillino Harris Susaia

Embassy of Mexico

1911 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20006

Tel: +1 202 728-1600 | Email: mexembusa@sre.gob.mx

Esteban Moctezuma, Mexico’s ambassador to the US since February 2021, has a long history of public service.

Among his many government posts, Moctezuma was secretary of administration for the state of Sinaloa (1982-87); chief administrative officer at the Secretariat of Programming and Budget (1988-92); chief administrative officer at the Secretariat of Public Education (199293); undersecretary of educational planning and coordination (1993-94); secretary of interior (1994-95); federal senator of the republic (1997-98) and secretary of social development (199899), and secretary of public education (2018-21).

Moctezuma is active in numerous civic causes, including Fundación Azteca, Bicentennial Generation Scholarships , the “Limpiemos nuestro México” campaign, the National Institute of Public Health and the National Council to Prevent Discrimination.

Moctezuma has a degree in economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and a master’s in economic development from England’s University of Cambridge.

In a January 2022 newspaper interview, Moctezuma claimed that Mexico “does not work for the US” when it comes to protecting Central American migrants seeking refuge in the United States.

Embassy of Micronesia

1725 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 223-4383 | Email: dcmission@fsmembassy.fm

Since 2016, Akillino Harris Susaia has represented his country, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), as ambassador in Washington.

Susaia attended Kapiolani Community College in Honolulu (1980-82), Fiji’s University of the South Pacific (1982-84) and the University of Hawaii-Manoa (1989-90) before coming to the University of Oregon, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1990, and a master’s in public administration in 1993. But he began his government career in 1978 as an aide in the Ponhpei state legislature (1978-88), moving on to budget officer (1988-96) and finally general manager of the Pohnpei Port Authority (1996-2000).

Susaia was Micronesia’s first resident ambassador to China (2010-15). Before that, he was consul general for the state of Hawaii (2008-10)—home to many Micronesians thanks to the Compact of Free Association, which allows FSM residents to enter the US without a visa. Among other things, Susaia has chaired the Pohnpei Visitors Bureau board of directors as well as that of the National Fisheries Corp. He and his wife, Mihpel, have two sons and two daughters.

Embassy of Moldova

2101 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 667-1130 | Email: washington@mfa.gov.md

Ursu Viorel became Moldova’s ambassador to the US in September 2022, taking over from Eugen Caras. Born in 1975, Viorel graduated from the Romanian-French Lyceum in Chisinau, and attended the State University of Moldova (1992-97), where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law. He also has a master’s in European studies—with a specialization in EU law—from the College of Europe’s Institute of Postgraduate European Studies in Bruges, Belgium.

Viorel began as a trainee in the International Law and Treaties Department of Moldova’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1996-97), and was then a lecturer at the law faculty of the State University of Moldova (1997-2002).

From 1998 to 2003, Viorel was an advisor and program manager for the nonprofit Soros Foundation, and later a senior analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute in Brussels (2003-14). From there, he moved to London, where he was division director for Europe and Eurasia at the Open Society Foundation (2014-22).

Viorel speaks Romanian, French, English and Russian.

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Embassy of Monaco

888 17th Street NW, Suite #500, Washington, DC 20006

Tel: +1 202 234-1530 | Email: info@monacodc.org

Maguy Maccario Doyle was appointed by Prince Albert II as ambassador to the US in 2013, representing her wealthy two-square-kilometer principality of 39,000 in Washington.

Maccario began her US career with the Monaco Government Tourist Office in New York in 1976 and became director for North America in 1994. In 1995 Prince Rainier III appointed her as consul of Monaco in New York, then consul general in 1997—making her the first Monégasque woman worldwide to hold that position.

In 2008, Maccario was named vice-president of the Prince Albert II of Monaco FoundationUSA and has since spearheaded many fundraising and awareness partnerships with, among others, Travel+Leisure magazine, Chicago’s Field Museum, Disney, Tesla, Alliance Française and New York’s American Museum of Natural History.

Maccario vigorously supports various humanitarian causes. In 1998, she was awarded a gold medal from ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in acknowledgement of her services and has, since 2004, served on its professional advisory board. In 2011 she was appointed to ALSAC’s International Advisory Council.

Embassy of Mongolia

2833 M Street NW, Washington, DC 20007

Tel: +1 202 333-7117 | Email: washington@mfa.gov.mn

Batbayar Ulziidelger, Mongolia’s ambassador to the US since December 2021, was formerly an advisor to the prime minister on foreign policy and cooperation.

Previously, he spent 20 years in the private sector as director, founder and CEO of various tourism, technology and consulting companies. Among other things, Ulziidelger helped develop the “Travel Responsibly” national campaign. He also assisted in formulating “Vision 2050”— Mongolia’s long-term development policy—and founded the Mongolian Akita Dog Association.

In 2016, Ulziidelger received Mongolia’s Order of the Polar Star; five years later, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs named him cultural envoy of Mongolia.

Ulziidelger received a bachelor’s degree in English from Mongolia’s Seruuleg University in 1994. He also got another bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Mongolian University of Science and Technology in 1998, and an MBA from the same school in 2000. In addition, he’s completed courses in Japan and China on business administration, corporate governance and international cooperation.

A karate enthusiast, Ulziidelger is married with two children. He speaks English, Japanese and Russian.

Embassy of Montenegro

1610 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 234-6108 | Email: nebojsa.kaludjerovic@mfa.gov.me

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Princess Lalla

Joumala Alaoui

Embassy of Morocco

3508 International Drive NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 462-7979 | Email: washingtonembmorocco@maec.gov.ma

Princess Lalla Joumala Alaoui took office as Morocco’s ambassador to the US in October 2016. Born in 1962, Lalla Joumala is the daughter of Princess Lalla Fatim Zahra and Prince Moulay Ali. Lalla Fatima Zohra was the eldest daughter of King Mohammad V and halfsister to then-king Hassan II, making her a cousin of current ruler Mohammad VI. Her aunt, Princess Lalla Aicha, was the world’s first female Arab ambassador, serving in the UK from 1965 to 1969.

Lalla Joumala attended Lycée Descartes in Rabat, later earning a degree in politics and history from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

Lalla Joumala served for a time as an executive at Bank Al Maghrib, then was an attaché at Morocco’s mission to the UN in New York (1999-2000). The founder of the MoroccanBritish Society, she was Morocco’s ambassador to Britain before her current assignment in Washington.

Lalla Joumala and her husband, Muhammad Reza Nouri Esfandiari, have one daughter.

Embassy of Mozambique

1525 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 293-7146 | Email: washington.dc@embamoc.gov.mz

Before his current appointment as Mozambique’s ambassador to the US, Carlos dos Santos served as his country’s top envoy to the United Kingdom (2011-15), where he was voted “Best Diplomat of the Year” in 2013. Prior to that, he spent five years as Mozambique’s ambassador to Germany (2006-11).

Ambassador

Carlos dos Santos

Chargé d’affaires

Thet Win

His long and distinguished career includes stints as director for Europe and the Americas at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005-06), advisor to the president (2003-05), and permanent representative to the United Nations (1996-2002). Dos Santos was the president’s private secretary (1992-96), chief of cabinet of the minister of foreign affairs (1991-92) and head of the political department at the ministry’s Africa and Middle East division.

Dos Santos holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Zimbabwe, and an MBA from the City University of New York’s Baruch College. He speaks Portuguese, English, Spanish and Ronga. He is married and has three children.

Embassy of Myanmar (Burma)

2300 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 332-3344 | Email: washington-embassy@mofa.gov.mm

Ambassador

Margaret Mensah-

Williams

Embassy of Namibia

1605 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 986-0540 | Email: info@namibiaembassyusa.org

Before becoming Namibia’s ambassador to the United States in 2020, Margaret MensahWilliams was the first woman in her country’s history to chair the National Council, the upper house of Namibia’s Parliament.

An advocate of gender equality and a campaigner against human trafficking and child abuse, Mensah-Williams was elected to the National Council in 1998. There, she headed several committees including the Women’s Caucus, Standing Rules and Orders, and Privileges and Immunities.

In 2014, she became president of the Women’s Coordinating Committee of the InterParliamentary Union (IPU); during the 137th IPU Assembly in Russia, she was elected vice-chair of the IPU Working Group on Syria. In 2018, she became the first woman and African to co-chair the Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organization (PCWTO).

Fluent in English and Afrikaans, Mensah-Williams has an MBA from the Eastern and Southern African Management Institute, as well as a diploma in negotiating skills from the Institute of Management and Leadership Training, and a diploma in housing and community development from the University of Cape Town.

Embassy of Nepal

2730 34th Place NW, Washington, DC 20007

Tel: +1 202 667-4550 | Email: info@nepalembassyusa.org

Sridhar Khatri, born in 1953, became Nepal’s ambassador to the United States in April 2022. Khatri coordinated a high-level task force, “Reorienting Nepal’s Foreign Policy in a Rapidly Changing World” (2017-18) and before that, he was executive director of the South Asia Centre for Policy Studies in Kathmandu (2005-12).

Ambassador

Sridhar Khatri

Among other things, Khatri helped his government prepare to host the 11th SAARC Summit in 2001. From 1990 to 2000, Khatri was regional editor of the journal Contemporary South Asia. Katri advised Nepal’s mission during the UN General Assembly in both 1973 and 1983; early in his career he was also private secretary to Nepalese Prime Minister Tulsi Giri (1975-77).

Khatri has degrees from City College of New York (1970-73) and Columbia University’s School of International Affairs (1973-75). A visiting scholar at the London School of Economics (1989-90), he also taught political science and other courses at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan University for over 27 years.

Khatri and his wife, Sarita, have a daughter and son. Fluent in Nepali, English and Hindi, the ambassador likes to play tennis, golf and squash.