Current U.S. Ambassadors
| Host country | Ref | U.S. Ambassador | Embassy Website |
Date Confirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Ref | James B. Cunningham | Kabul | August 2012 |
| Albania | Ref | Alexander A. Arvizu | Tirana | December 2010 |
| Algeria | Ref | Henry S. Ensher | Algiers | July 2011 |
| Andorra | Ref | Alan Solomont | Madrid | December 2009 |
| Angola | Ref | Christopher J. McMullen | Luanda | September 2010 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Ref | Larry Leon Palmer | Bridgetown | 2012 |
| Argentina | Ref | Vilma S. Martinez | Buenos Aires | July 2009 |
| Armenia | Ref | John A. Heffern | Yerevan | August 2011 |
| Australia | Ref | Jeff Bleich | Canberra | November 2009 |
| Austria | Ref | William Eacho | Vienna | August 2009 |
| Azerbaijan | Ref | Richard L. Morningstar | Baku | June 2012 |
| The Bahamas | Ref | John Dinkelman, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | Nassau | |
| Bahrain | Ref | Thomas Krajeski | Manama | October 2011 |
| Bangladesh | Ref | Dan Mozena | Dhaka | June 2011 |
| Barbados | Ref | Larry Leon Palmer | Bridgetown | 2012 |
| Belarus | Ref | Vacant since March 12, 2008. Ethan A. Goldrich, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. |
Minsk | |
| Belgium | Ref | Howard W. Gutman | Brussels | August 2009 |
| Belize | Ref | Vinai Thummalapally | Belmopan | June 2009 |
| Benin | Ref | James Knight | Cotonou | August 2009 |
| Bolivia | Ref | Vacant since September 10, 2008 Larry L. Memmott, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. |
La Paz | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Ref | Patrick S. Moon | Sarajevo | August 2009 |
| Botswana | Ref | Michelle D. Gavin | Gaborone | June 2011 |
| Brazil | Ref | Thomas A. Shannon, Jr. | Brasilia | December 2009 |
| Brunei | Ref | Daniel L. Shields | Bandar Seri Begawan | March 2011 |
| Bulgaria | Ref | James B. Warlick, Jr. | Sofia | December 2009 |
| Burkina Faso | Ref | Thomas Dougherty | Ouagadougou | May 2010 |
| Burma | Ref | Derek Mitchell | Rangoon | June 2012 |
| Burundi | Ref | Pamela J. H. Slutz | Bujumbura | November 2009 |
| Cambodia | Ref | Carol A. Rodley | Phnom Penh | October 2008 |
| Cameroon | Ref | Robert P. Jackson | Yaoundé | September 2010 |
| Canada | Ref | David Jacobson | Ottawa | October 2009 |
| Cape Verde | Ref | Adrienne S. O’Neal | Praia | October 2011 |
| Central African Republic | Ref | Lawrence D. Wohlers | Bangui | September 2010 |
| Chad | Ref | Mark Boulware | Ndjamena | September 2010 |
| Chile | Ref | Alejandro Daniel Wolff | Santiago | July 2010 |
| China | Ref | Gary Locke | Beijing | July 2011 |
| Colombia | Ref | Peter Michael McKinley | Bogotá | August 2010 |
| Comoros | Ref | Vacant Eric M. Wong, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. |
Antananarivo | |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | Ref | James F. Entwistle | Kinshasa | August 2010 |
| Republic of the Congo | Ref | Christopher W. Murray | Brazzaville | August 2010 |
| Costa Rica | Ref | Anne Slaughter Andrew | San José | December 2009 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | Ref | Phillip Carter III | Abidjan | 2010 |
| Croatia | Ref | James B. Foley | Zagreb | September 2009 |
| Cuba | Ref | No diplomatic relations since 1961. | ||
| Cyprus | Ref | John Koenig | Nicosia | |
| Northern Cyprus | ||||
| Czech Republic | Ref | Norman L. Eisen | Prague | December 2010 |
| Denmark | Ref | Laurie S. Fulton | Copenhagen | July 2009 |
| Djibouti | Ref | Geeta Pasi | Djibouti | April 2011 |
| Dominica | Ref | Larry Leon Palmer | Bridgetown | 2012 |
| Dominican Republic | Ref | Raul Yzaguirre | Santo Domingo | September 2010 |
| East Timor (Timor-Leste) | Ref | Judith Fergin | Dili | September 2010 |
| Ecuador | Ref | Adam E. Namm | Quito | April 2012 |
| Egypt | Ref | Anne W. Patterson | Cairo | August 2011 |
| El Salvador | Ref | Mari Carmen Aponte | San Salvador | June 2012 |
| Equatorial Guinea | Ref | Alberto M. Fernandez | Malabo | February 2010 |
| Eritrea | Ref | Vacant since July 2010 Joel Reifman, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. |
Asmara | |
| Estonia | Ref | Michael C. Polt | Tallinn | September 2009 |
| Ethiopia | Ref | Donald E. Booth | Addis Ababa | April 2010 |
| Fiji | Ref | Frankie A. Reed | Suva | August 2011 |
| Finland | Ref | Bruce J. Oreck | Helsinki | August 2009 |
| France | Ref | Charles Rivkin | Paris | July 2009 |
| Gabon | Ref | Eric D. Benjaminson | Libreville | July 2010 |
| The Gambia | Ref | Edward M. Alford | Banjul | June 2012 |
| Georgia | Ref | John R. Bass | Tbilisi | October 2009 |
| Germany | Ref | Philip D. Murphy | Berlin | August 2009 |
| Ghana | Ref | Gene Cretz | Ghana | August 2012 |
| Greece | Ref | Daniel Bennett Smith | Athens | September 2010 |
| Grenada | Ref | Larry Leon Palmer | Bridgetown | 2012 |
| Guatemala | Ref | Arnold A. Chacon | Guatemala | August 2011 |
| Guinea | Ref | Mark L. Asquino | Conakry | June 2012 |
| Guinea-Bissau | Ref | Lewis A. Lukens | Dakar | August 2011 |
| Guyana | Ref | D. Brent Hardt | Georgetown | June 2011 |
| Haiti | Ref | Kenneth H. Merten | Port-au-Prince | June 2009 |
| Holy See | Ref | Miguel H. Díaz | Vatican | August 2009 |
| Honduras | Ref | Lisa Kubiske | Tegucigalpa | July 2011 |
| Hungary | Ref | Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis | Budapest | January 2010 |
| Iceland | Ref | Luis E. Arreaga | Reykjavik | August 2010 |
| India | Ref | Nancy Powell | New Delhi | March 2012 |
| Indonesia | Ref | Scot Marciel | Jakarta | August 2010 |
| Iran | Ref | No diplomatic relations since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. | ||
| Iraq | Ref | James Franklin Jeffrey | Baghdad | August 2010 |
| Ireland | Ref | Dan Rooney | Dublin | July 2009 |
| Israel | Ref | Daniel B. Shapiro | Tel Aviv | July 2011 |
| Italy | Ref | David Thorne | Rome | August 2009 |
| Jamaica | Ref | Pamela E. Bridgewater | Kingston | December 2010 |
| Japan | Ref | John Roos | Tokyo | August 2009 |
| Jordan | Ref | Stuart E. Jones | Amman | |
| Kazakhstan | Ref | Kenneth J. Fairfax | Astana | July 2011 |
| Kenya | Ref | Scott Gration | Nairobi | April 2011 |
| Kiribati | Ref | C. Steven McGann | Suva | October 2008 |
| North Korea | ||||
| South Korea | Ref | Sung Kim | Seoul | October 2011 |
| Kosovo | Ref | Christopher William Dell | Pristina | May 2009 |
| Kuwait | Ref | Matthew H. Tueller | Kuwait City | September 2011 |
| Kyrgyzstan | Ref | Pamela L. Spratlen | Bishkek | April 2011 |
| Laos | Ref | Karen B. Stewart | Vientiane | November 2010 |
| Latvia | Ref | Judith G. Garber | Riga | August 2009 |
| Lebanon | Ref | Maura Connelly | Beirut | September 2010 |
| Lesotho | Ref | Michele T. Bond | Maseru | September 2010 |
| Liberia | Ref | Deborah R. Malac, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. | Monrovia | July 2012 |
| Libya | Ref | Laurence Pope as Chargé d’Affairs | Tripoli | |
| Liechtenstein | Ref | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Bern | August 2009 |
| Lithuania | Ref | Anne E. Derse | Vilnius | September 2009 |
| Luxembourg | Ref | Robert A. Mandell | Luxembourg | October 2011 |
| Macedonia | Ref | Paul D. Wohlers | Skopje | September 2011 |
| Madagascar | Ref | Vacant since June 7, 2010 Eric M. Wong, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. |
Antananarivo | |
| Malawi | Ref | Jeanine E. Jackson | Lilongwe | 2011 |
| Malaysia | Ref | Paul W. Jones | Kuala Lumpur | September 2010 |
| Maldives | Ref | Michele J. Sison | Colombo | June 2012 |
| Mali | Ref | Mary Leonard | Bamako | October 2011 |
| Malta | Ref | Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley | Valletta | April 2012 |
| Marshall Islands | Ref | Thomas Hart Armbruster | Majuro | August 2012 |
| Mauritania | Ref | Jo Ellen Powell | Nouakchott | September 2010 |
| Mauritius | Ref | Vacant since ??? Troy Fitrell, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. |
Port Louis | |
| Mexico | Ref | Earl Anthony "Tony" Wayne | Mexico City | |
| Micronesia, Federated States of | Ref | Dorothea-Maria Rosen | Kolonia | June 2012 |
| Moldova | Ref | William H. Moser | Chisinau | August 2011 |
| Monaco | Ref | Charles Rivkin | Paris | July 2009 |
| Mongolia | Ref | Piper Anne Wind Campbell | Ulaanbaatar | June 2012 |
| Montenegro | Ref | Sue K. Brown | Podgorica | April 2011 |
| Morocco | Ref | Samuel L. Kaplan | Rabat | September 2009 |
| Mozambique | Ref | Douglas M. Griffiths | Maputo | June 2012 |
| Namibia | Ref | Wanda L. Nesbitt | Windhoek | September 2010 |
| Nauru | Ref | C. Steven McGann | Suva | October 2008 |
| Nepal | Ref | Peter W. Bodde | Kathmandu | June 2012 |
| Netherlands | Ref | Vacant since September 2011 Edwin R. Nolan, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. |
The Hague | August 2009 |
| New Zealand | Ref | David Huebner | Wellington | November 2009 |
| Nicaragua | Ref | Phyllis M. Powers | Managua | March 2012 |
| Niger | Ref | Bisa Williams | Niamey | October 2010 |
| Nigeria | Ref | Terence P. McCulley | Abuja | September 2010 |
| Norway | Ref | Barry B. White | Oslo | September 2009 |
| Oman | Ref | Richard Schmierer | Muscat | August 2009 |
| Pakistan | Ref | Richard Olsen | Islamabad | October 2010 |
| Palau | Ref | Helen Reed-Rowe | Koror | September 2010 |
| Panama | Ref | Jonathan D. Farrar | Panama | March 2012 |
| Papua New Guinea | Ref | Teddy B. Taylor | Port Moresby | September 2009 |
| Paraguay | Ref | Liliana Ayalde | Asunción | August 2008 |
| Peru | Ref | Rose M. Likins | Lima | September 2010 |
| Philippines | Ref | Harry K. Thomas, Jr. | Manila | April 2010 |
| Poland | Ref | Lee A. Feinstein | Warsaw | September 2009 |
| Portugal | Ref | Allan J. Katz | Lisbon | March 2010 |
| Qatar | Ref | Susan L. Ziadeh | Doha | June 2011 |
| Romania | Ref | Mark Gitenstein | Bucharest | July 2009 |
| Russia | Ref | Michael McFaul | Moscow | January 2012 |
| Rwanda | Ref | Donald W. Koran | Kigali | July 2009 |
| Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic | ||||
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Ref | Larry Leon Palmer | Bridgetown | 2012 |
| Saint Lucia | Ref | Larry Leon Palmer | Bridgetown | 2012 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Ref | Larry Leon Palmer | Bridgetown | 2012 |
| Samoa | Ref | David Huebner | Wellington | November 2009 |
| San Marino | Ref | David Thorne | Florence | October 2011 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | Ref | Eric D. Benjaminson | Libreville | July 2010 |
| Saudi Arabia | Ref | James B. Smith | Riyadh | September 2009 |
| Senegal | Ref | Lewis A. Lukens | Dakar | August 2011 |
| Serbia | Ref | Michael Kirby | Belgrade | August 2012 |
| Seychelles | Ref | Mary Jo Wills | Port Louis | February 2010 |
| Sierra Leone | Ref | Michael S. Owen | Freetown | August 2010 |
| Singapore | Ref | David Adelman | Singapore | March 2010 |
| Slovakia | Ref | Theodore Sedgwick | Bratislava | July 2010 |
| Slovenia | Ref | Joseph A. Mussomeli | Ljubljana | October 2010 |
| Solomon Islands | Ref | Teddy B. Taylor | Port Moresby | September 2009 |
| Somalia | Ref | Virtual Presence Post Managed through the U.S. Embassy in Kenya |
Somalia VPP | |
| South Africa | Ref | Donald Gips | Pretoria | July 2009 |
| South Ossetia | ||||
| South Sudan | Ref | Susan Page | Juba | October 2011 |
| Spain | Ref | Alan Solomont | Madrid | December 2009 |
| Sri Lanka | Ref | Michele J. Sison | Colombo | January 2010 |
| Sudan | Ref | Vacant since 1996 Joseph D. Stafford, Chargé d’Affaires a. i. |
Khartoum | |
| Suriname | Ref | Jay N. Anania | Paramaribo | June 2012 |
| Swaziland | Ref | Earl M. Irving | Mbabane | August 2009 |
| Sweden | Ref | Mark Brzezinski | Stockholm | October 2011 |
| Switzerland | Ref | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Bern | August 2009 |
| Syria | Ref | Robert Stephen Ford | Damascus | December 2010 |
| Taiwan | ||||
| Tajikistan | Ref | Susan Marsh Elliott | Dushanbe | June 2012 |
| Tanzania | Ref | Alfonso E. Lenhardt | Dar es Salaam | August 2009 |
| Thailand | Ref | Kristie Kenney | Bangkok | January 2011 |
| Togo | Ref | Robert E. Whitehead | Lomé | May 2012 |
| Tonga | Ref | Frankie A. Reed | Tonga | August 2011 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Ref | Beatrice Wilkinson Welters | Port of Spain | April 2010 |
| Tunisia | Ref | Gordon Gray | Tunis | August 2009 |
| Turkey | Ref | Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. | Ankara | January 2011 |
| Turkmenistan | Ref | Robert Patterson | Ashgabat | April 2011 |
| Tuvalu | Ref | C. Steven McGann | Suva | October 2008 |
| Uganda | Ref | Jerry P. Lanier | Kampala | August 2009 |
| Ukraine | Ref | John F. Tefft | Kiev | November 2009 |
| United Arab Emirates | Ref | Michael H. Corbin | Abu Dhabi | July 2011 |
| United Kingdom | Ref | Louis Susman | London | July 2009 |
| Uruguay | Ref | Julissa Reynoso | Montevideo | March 2012 |
| Uzbekistan | Ref | George A. Krol | Tashkent | June 2011 |
| Vanuatu | Ref | Teddy B. Taylor | Port Moresby | September 2009 |
| Venezuela | Ref | Vacant since July 2010 James M. Derham, Chargé d'Affaires a.i. |
Caracas | |
| Vietnam | Ref | David B. Shear | Hanoi | August 2011 |
| Yemen | Ref | Gerald M. Feierstein | Sana’a | September 2010 |
| Zambia | Ref | Mark C. Storella | Lusaka | August 2010 |
| Zimbabwe | Ref | Charles A. Ray | Harare | September 2009 |
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