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Ambassador

André Haspels

Embassy of the Netherlands

4200 Linnean Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 244-5300

André Haspels, born in 1962, has represented the Netherlands as ambassador to the US since 2019. The son of a flower importer and trader, Haspels earned a degree in political science from Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteit in 1986 and a year later joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His first overseas posting was as a policy officer at the Dutch Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka (198890), later becoming press secretary to Piet Dankert, the minister for European affairs (1990-92).

In 1997, Haspels became head of the political department at the Royal Dutch Embassy in Pretoria, where among other things he helped set up the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He then headed the External Affairs Division of the Foreign Ministry’s European Integration Department (2000-05), where among other things he was involved with his country’s 2004 presidency of the EU. Haspels later served as ambassador in Vietnam (2005-08) and South Africa (2011-14), where he was also accredited to Namibia, Swaziland, Lesotho and Botswana. Haspels and his wife, Bernie Grootenboer, have four children.

Embassy of New Zealand

37 Observatory Circle NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 328-4800 | Email: wshinfo@mfat.govt.nz

Bede Gilbert Corry became New Zealand’s ambassador to the US in September 2022, replacing Rosemary Banks. Prior to this post he was high commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

Born in 1964, Corry graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Victoria University in Wellington. His most significant posts in the New Zealand Public Service including deputy chief executive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade; deputy secretary of the same ministry; deputy secretary at the Ministry of Defense, and ambassador to Thailand.

Ambassador

Bede Corry

Corry has also served as director of the Australia division; director of the chief executive’s office; counselor at the New Zealand Embassy in Washington, and private secretary to the foreign minister. He has also served at the New Zealand High Commission in Canberra, Australia.

Embassy of Nicaragua

1627 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 939-6570 | Email: mperalta@cancilleria.gob.ni

Francisco Obadiah Campbell Hooker has been Nicaragua’s ambassador to the US since 2010. His wife, Miriam Hooker, works at the Nicaraguan consulate, also in Washington. Born in the Atlantic coastal city of Bluefields, Campbell earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1974 and a master’s in international relations in 1975, both from the University of Hawaii.

From 1976 to 1978, he was a sociology professor at the Autonomous University of Nicaragua. An activist in the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), Campbell joined the government service following the overthrow of the Somoza regime in 1979.

Ambassador

Francisco

Obadiah Campbell Hooker

He served as deputy chief of mission at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington (1982-86) and ambassador to Zimbabwe (1986-90), during the time Zimbabwe held the presidency of the Non-Aligned Movement.

After the Sandinistas’ defeat in the 1990 presidential elections, Campbell left the government to focus on domestic issues. In 1990, he established the Foundation for the Autonomy and Development of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, with which he has been involved ever since.

Ambassador

Kiari LimanTinguiri

Embassy of Niger

2204 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 483-4224 | Email: communication@embassyofniger.org

Kiari Liman-Tinguiri, born in 1953 in the southern Nigerien town of Gouré, has been Niger’s ambassador to the US in December 2021.

Liman-Tinguiri began his higher education at Belgium’s University de Liege in Belgium, and received his master’s degree and a PhD in economics, followed by a post-doctoral research degree in international development from the Université Nancy in France.

In 1999, Liman-Tinguiri joined the United Nations as a regional economic advisor in charge of economic issues and social policies with the UNICEF regional office for West and Central Africa, later becoming senior program officer with UNICEF in Pretoria, South Africa. He then served as the agency’s representative to Algeria (2001-04) and Syria (2004-06).

Transferring to the UN Development Program, he served as the UNDP’s resident representative in Equatorial Guinea (2006-09) and the South American nation of Guyana (2009-11). He returned to New York as a police and practice senior advisor for UNICEF before founding IEDAS, an international development focused consultancy based in Ottawa.

Liman-Tinguiri is fluent in English and French. He and his wife have three children.

Embassy of Nigeria

3519 International Court NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 800-7201 | Email: info@nigeriaembassyusa.org

Uzoma Emenike became Nigeria’s first-ever female ambassador to the United States in May 2021, following her posting to Ireland with concurrent accreditation to Iceland from 2017 to 2021.

Ambassador

Uzoma Emenike

Emenike joined the Nigerian Foreign Service in 1987, serving variously in the protocol, Africa and training departments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For six years, she was posted to the Nigerian Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (1992-98). In 2002, Emenike left the Foreign Service for the private sector, working among other things as a management consultant. Emenike has earned two bachelor’s degrees, three master’s degrees, and a doctorate— mostly in the fields of sociology, anthropology, international law and diplomacy.

A longtime philanthropist, Emenike supports numerous women—particularly widows and the elderly— as well as indigent youths through her family’s Emenike Foundation. She and her husband, Chief Ikechi Emenike, have four children.

Embassy of North Macedonia

2129 Wyoming Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 667-0501 | Email: washington@mfa.gov.mk

Zoran Popov became North Macedonia’s ambassador to the US in August 2022, immediately after serving for three years as a state secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Skopje.

A senior member of the Foreign Service, Popov spent most of his carrier in the ministry’s European Union Directorate. As such, he helped draft vital documents in his country’s integration negotiations, as well as its visa liberalization talks with the EU.

From 2003 to 2008, he served as a diplomat at the Macedonian mission to the EU in Brussels. And from September 2016 to October 2019, he was a senior political advisor at the Regional Cooperation Council in Sarajevo, where he pushed for political cooperation among member states of the Southeast European Cooperation Process (SEECP). In that capacity, he also promoted Euro-Atlantic integration of the Western Balkan countries and lent political support to the Multi-Annual Action Plan on Regional Economic Integration (MAP REA).

Popov has a master’s degree in international relations from London’s University of Westminster. In addition, he’s completed a series of training courses on European integration and the EU accession negotiations process.

Ambassador

Anniken Krutnes

Embassy of Norway

2720 34th Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 333-6000 | Email: emb.washington@mfa.no

Anniken Krutnes is the Washington-based ambassador of Norway, which established its first embassy here in 1905. Strong ties bind the two countries; after all, between 1825 and 1940, more than a third of Norway’s population emigrated to America.

An expert in security policy, maritime and Arctic issues, Krutnes has been with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1994. In her previous position, she served as deputy director-general of the Department of Security Policy. Before that, she was Norway’s ambassador for Arctic and Antarctic affairs.

Krutnes has been posted to several European countries, and was ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

Krutnes holds a master of laws degree from the University of Oslo, and a master of science in economics and administration from the Norwegian School of Economics. She also studied international management at Italy’s Universittá Luigi Bocconi in Milan. Krutnes is married and has three children.

Embassy of Oman

2535 Belmont Road NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 387-1980 | Email: washington@fm.gov.om

Moosa Hamdan Al Tai has represented the Sultanate of Oman in Washington as ambassador since 2020. Previously, he was chief of the West Asia department at Oman’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2019-20) and strategic director of the National Defense College in Muscat (2016-19).

From 2013 to 2016, Al Tai was chief of the international cooperation department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and from 2009 to 2013 he was Oman’s ambassador to Morocco, with accreditation to Mauritania, Mali and the Central African Republic.

Ambassador Moosa Hamdan

Al Tai

Al Tai was Oman’s ambassador to South Korea (2001-09), and before that, deputy chief of the economic cooperation department at the Foreign Ministry (1999-2001). Before that, he was a delegate at the Omani mission to the United Nations in New York (1993-98), and second secretary in the political section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (I989-93).

Al Tai earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1989, and a master’s in strategic studies from Oman’s Sultan Qaboos University (2016). Al Tai is fluent in Arabic and English.

Embassy of Pakistan

3517 International Court NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 243-6500 | Email: consularsection@embassyofpakistanusa.org

Masood Khan, born in Rawalakot in 1951, was appointed Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States in February 2022. He replaced Asad Majeed Khan, who had the job for over three years. Masood Khan was formerly the president of Azad Jammu and Kashmir from August 2016 to August 2021. Prior to his role as president, he was the director general of a Pakistani think tank, the Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad.

In his earliest diplomatic career, he held foreign positions in China, the Netherlands, and the United States. He was the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2005. His ambassadorial career began in 2005, when he was named Pakistan’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland for three years. Then he represented Pakistan in China from 2008 to 2012 and served as ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York from 2012 to 2015. Representing Pakistan as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council from 2012 to 2013, he became the President of the Council in January 2013.

Khan holds a master’s degree in English and initially began his career as a Pakistan Television host and radio newscaster. His interests include nuclear diplomacy, South multilateral diplomacy and international humanitarian, and others.

Miguel Grau

Embassy of Peru

Miguel Grau (1834 - 1879), considered the greatest naval hero in Peruvian history, led his country to victory during the War of the Pacific.