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As a Ha r v ard Medical School teaching hospital in Bos ton, Brigham and Women’s Hospital is internationally known for pioneering b reakth roughs and caring for patients with complex medical conditions.

Each y ear, thousands of international patients t rav el to our hospital for ad vanced t reatment, complex su rgeries and inn ov ati v e clinical trials.

Our multilingual International Patient Center staff assist with all aspects of this journ ey, including coo rdinating medical ca re and concie rge se rvices.

Ambassador

Javlon Vakhabov

Embassy of Uzbekistan

1746 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 887-5300 | Email: info.washington@mfa.uz

Javlon Vakhabov, Uzbekistan’s envoy to the US since 2017, is among the youngest ambassadors in Washington. In many ways, he represents a new generation of Uzbeks helping nudge the Central Asian country out of international isolation under Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a former prime minister who took over in 2016 upon the death of dictator Islam Karimov.

Vakhabov earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in international law at Tashkent’s University of World Economy and Diplomacy. He began his career in 2001 as attaché, third secretary and then acting head of division at the Treaty-Law Department of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Ministry. In 2006, he became a consultant for the National Security Council, and in 2011, was promoted to deputy secretary of that council.

In 2013, he was named director of Uzbekistan’s Institute of Strategic and Inter-Regional Studies, and two years later became deputy minister of foreign affairs. In 2015, Vakhabov was promoted to first deputy minister, a position he held until his current post in Washington. Vakhabov is married with three children.

Embassy of Venezuela

1099 30th Street NW, Washington, DC 20007

Tel: +1 240 535-8911 | Email: info@us.embajadavenezuela.org

On Jan. 5, 2023, the interim Venezuelan government of Juan Guaidó announced the closing of its embassy in Washington, DC. This has left Venezuela without any official representation in the United States.

Embassy of Vietnam

1233 20th Street NW, Suite #400, Washington, DC 20036

Tel: +1 202 861-0737 | Email: info@vietnamembassy.us

Nguyen Quoc Dzung replaced Ha Kim Ngoc as Vietnam’s ambassador to the US in February 2022. Born in Hanoi in 1964, Dzung is a 30-year veteran of Vietnam’s Foreign Service. Most recently, he was the socialist country’s deputy foreign minister (2016-22); before that, he was assistant foreign minister and director-general of two ministry departments: organization and personnel, and economic affairs (2011-16).

Dzung served as ambassador to Hungary, with accreditation to Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Croatia (2007-11), and held various positions within the Foreign Ministry from 1990 to 2007, including director-general of the APEC 2006 National Secretariat, except for a three-year stint at the Vietnamese Embassy in Berlin as attaché and then third secretary (1996-99).

Dzung graduated from the Institute for International Relations (now the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam) in 1984. He attended an intensive Russian language course at Ukraine’s Kiev University (1986-87) and earned a master’s degree in international studies from England’s Birmingham University (1993-95).

The new ambassador is fluent in English. He also speaks Russian, French and German. Dzung and his wife, Tran Thi Bich Van, have two children.

Ambassador Mohammad Al-Hadhrami

Embassy of Yemen

2319 Wyoming Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 965-4760 | Email: information@yemenembassy.org

Career diplomat Mohammed Al-Hadhrami was appointed Yemen’s ambassador to the United States in March 2022.

Al-Hadhrami began working with the Yemeni Foreign Ministry in 2004. From 2008 to 2012, he served at Yemen’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York, where he also represented his country at the UNDP, UNOPS and UNFPA executive boards.

From 2016 to 2018, he was deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of Yemen in Washington. He then spent nearly a year as Yemen’s vice minister of foreign affairs (201819), followed by just over a year as Yemen’s minister of foreign affairs (2019-20).

Al-Hadhrami holds two master’s degrees—one in diplomacy and international relations from New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson University (2010), and another in development policy from the Korean Development Institute in Seoul (2013). He earned his bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University in 2002.

Born in 1979, Al-Hadhrami is married with three children.

Embassy of Zambia

2200 R Street NW, Washington, DC 20008

Tel: +1 202 234-4009 | Email: info@zambiaembassy.org

Lazarous Kapambwe, Zambia’s ambassador to the US since January 2020, spent 12 years prior to that as his country’s permanent representative to the UN in New York.

Born in 1959, Kapambwe earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Zambia, and a post-graduate diploma in international relations from Kenya’s Nairobi University.

Starting as counselor for political affairs at Zambia’s permanent mission to the UN (1987-88), he later became deputy chief of mission at Zambia’s embassy in Washington (1988-93). Back home, he headed African affairs at the Foreign Ministry (1996-2000), becoming permanent secretary for Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2000-02), and permanent secretary (2002-03).

From 2003 to 2007, Kapambwe was Zambia’s envoy to Ethiopia and the African Union (AU), with concurrent accreditation to Sudan, Yemen, Djibouti and Somalia. He’s also represented Zambia at the OAU, the AU, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (IGAD).

Embassy of Zimbabwe

1608 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009

Tel: +1 202 332-7100 | Email: general@zimembassydc.org

Tadeous Tafirenyika Chifamba, Zimbabwe’s new ambassador to the US, formerly represented his country before the European Union in Brussels. From 2009 to 2013, the career diplomat was permanent secretary for regional integration and international cooperation.

From 1994 to 2001, he was Zimbabwe’s deputy ambassador to the UN and World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva. Other positions at the Foreign Ministry included divisional head for multilateral affairs (2002-07) and divisional head for Africa, Asia and the Pacific (2007-09).

In 1999 and 2011, Chifamba was coordinator and spokesman of the African trade negotiators’ group at the WTO. In 2011, he was elected chief negotiator for eastern and southern Africa during talks on economic partnership agreements with the EU.

Chifamba graduated from the University of Zimbabwe with a bachelor’s degree in politics and administration, and a master’s in international relations. His appointment as ambassador, notes the embassy’s website, “is expected to give impetus to the government’s re-engagement efforts aimed at ending Zimbabwe’s isolation.”