Joseph Gerard Sullivan
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ANGOLA: Joseph Gerard Sullivan was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Angola. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he became chair of the Israel-Lebanon Monitoring Group in July l997. He previously served as special coordinator for Haiti, principal officer in Havana, deputy assistant secretary for Inter-American Affairs and director of the Office of Central American Affairs. He also has served in Tel Aviv, as special assistant to the counselor of the Department and in the Office of Policy Planning for Inter-American Affairs. He was assigned to Lisbon, as desk officer for Costa Rica and as vice consul and political officer in Mexico City. He was a diplomat in residence at Georgetown University in 1993 and spent the 19791980 academic year at Yale University. Ambassador Sullivan received a master's degree from Georgetown University and a bachelor's degree from Tufts University. He speaks Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew.
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E. William Crotty
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BARBADOS: E. William Crotty was recently confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. An attorney since 1958, he served as the senior managing partner of Black, Crotty, Sims, Hubka, Burnett, Birch and Samuels in Daytona Beach, Fla. He was appointed in May 1996 to the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and served on the Judicial Foundation Board and the National Skill Standards Board. He earned a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a law degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a Frederick L. Leckie Scholar. He also received a master's of law in taxation from New York University.
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Robert C. Felder
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BENIN: Robert C. Felder was recently confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Benin. Ambassador Felder joined the Foreign Service in 1966, serving initially as vice consul in Port-au-Prince, then as the desk officer for Cuba. He later served as special assistant to the ambassadorin Buenos Aires, then as the desk officer for Argentina. Ambassador Felder was a political officer in Kenya from 1976 to 1978 and chargé d'affaires in the Seychelles before returning to Latin America as a political officer in Brasilia in 1981 and in Buenos Aires in 1983. He attended the Department's Senior Seminar from 1989 to 1990 and became deputy chief of mission in Caracas in 1990. Ambassador Felder served as director of the Office of Mexican Affairs from 1993 to 1995, when he became deputy chief of mission in Haiti. He received a bachelor's degree from Williams College and attended the School of International Affairs at Columbia University. He speaks Spanish, French and Portuguese.
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John Melvin Yates
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CAMEROON AND EQUATORIAL GUINEA:John Melvin Yates, former ambassador to the Republic of Benin and the Republic of Cape Verde, was recently confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Cameroon and to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Yates has served as deputy chief of mission in Lagos, Libreville and Kinshasa and was posted in Algeria, Malawi, Mali, India and Turkey. In Washington, D.C., he served in the Bureaus of African Affairs, and Oceans, Environment and Scientific Affairs. Ambassador Yates earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and two master's degrees and a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He speaks French and Portuguese.
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Robert C. Perry
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CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Robert C. Perry was recently confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the Central African Republic. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he joined the Foreign Service in 1968 and was detailed to the U.S. Agency for International Development to serve in the Vietnam rural development program. He also served in Chile, Ethiopia and Mexico. At State, Ambassador Perry served on the South Africa and Cuba desks, as special assistant to the undersecretary for Political Affairs, as an analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and as a division chief and office director in the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters from 1990 to 1994. He was deputy chief of mission in Mauritius from 1986 to 1989 and in Bolivia from 1995 to 1998. He earned a bachelor's degree from Wittenberg University and a master's degree from American University and attended the National War College and the Senior Seminar. He speaks Spanish and French.
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George Mu
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COTE D'IVOIRE: George Mu, a member of the Foreign Service since 1969, was recently confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Côte D'Ivoire. Ambassador Mu began his career in Singapore, followed by postings to Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo. He served with the Department of Commerce in 1983, where he was deputy director in the Office of Japan, followed by assignments in Korea, Canada and Tokyo and at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels. Ambassador Mu was appointed to the rank of career minister in 1992, becoming the highest-ranking Foreign Service officer in the Foreign Commercial Service. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley.
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John Shattuck
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CZECH REPUBLIC: John Shattuck, former assistant secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, was recently confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Before becoming assistant secretary in 1993, Ambassador Shattuck was vice president of Harvard University and a lecturer at Harvard Law School. He has written and lectured extensively and has received several prestigious awards for his contributions to public service, education, and promoting human rights and civil liberties. Ambassador Shattuck is a graduate of Yale Law School. He received a master's degree from Cambridge University and a bachelor's degree from Yale College.
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James Vela Ledesma
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GABONESE REPUBLIC: James Vela Ledesma was recently confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to the Gabonese Republic and to the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe. A member of the Foreign Service since l972, he served in Beirut, Algiers, Paris and Reykjavik. He was assigned to State's Bureau of Personnel and served as deputy director of the Office of East African Affairs. Ambassador Ledesma was named deputy chief of mission in Accra in 1992 and in Dakar in 1995. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara and speaks Spanish and French.
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Kathryn Dee Robinson
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GHANA: Kathryn Dee Robinson has been confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Ghana. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, she has served in Mumbai, in State's Operations Center and in Guangzhou. Ambassador Robinson was a Congressional Fellow for then-Rep. Al Gore, deputy director of the Office of Thailand-Burma Affairs and a management analyst in the Bureau of Consular Affairs before returning to China in 1988 to become consul general in Beijing. She was principal officer in Medan and became consul general in Seoul in 1995. She received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee and speaks French, Mandarin Chinese and Indonesian.
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Michael J. Sullivan
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IRELAND: Michael J. Sullivan, former governor of Wyoming, was recently confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to Ireland. Ambassador Sullivan was elected governor in 1986 and was reelected in 1990. He is a partner in the law firm of Brown, Drew, Massey and Sullivan and sponsored an Institute of Politics Fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1996. He chairs the Wyoming Board of Bar Examiners and formerly chaired the Western Governors Association and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and co-chaired the Alliance for Acid Rain Control. He received a bachelor's and law degree from the University of Wyoming.
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Richard Henry Jones
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KAZAKHSTAN: Richard Henry Jones, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was recently confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Kazakhstan. Ambassador Jones has served as a diplomat for 22 years, concentrating on economic and Middle East issues. Before becoming U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon in l996, he served as director of State's Office of Egyptian Affairs and as director of the Office of Developed Country Trade in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. He also was posted to Riyadh, Paris and Tunis. He earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of WisconsinMadison as well as a bachelor's degree from Harvey Mudd College and is a graduate of the Department's Senior Seminar. He speaks Arabic, French, German and Russian.
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B. Lynn Pascoe
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MALAYSIA: B. Lynn Pascoe was confirmed by the Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia. Ambassador Pascoe, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, previously served as special negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and regional conflicts in the Newly Independent States and as U.S. co-chair of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Minsk Group, which seeks to resolve the dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. Before assuming that position, he served as a senior adviser in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He also served as director of the American Institute inTaiwan, principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, deputy chief of mission in Beijing, deputy executive secretary and special assistant to the Deputy Secretary. He served on the Soviet and China desks and was posted to Moscow, Beijing, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Ambassador Pascoe received a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas and a master's degree from Columbia University. He studied Chinese at Stanford Center in Taipei and attended the U.S. National War College and State's Senior Seminar. Ambassador Pascoe speaks Chinese and Russian.
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John Bruce Craig
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OMAN: John Bruce Craig was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambas-sador Craig has served in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Haiti and the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. He directed the junior officer division in the Bureau of Personnel and was deputy chief of mission in Damascus from 1988 to 1992 and in Bogota from 1992 to 1995. His most recent assignment was as director of the Near Eastern Affairs Bureau's Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs. Ambassador Craig received his bachelor's degree from American University. He speaks Arabic, French and Spanish.
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Simon Ferro
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PANAMA: Simon Ferro, a professional and civic leader in South Florida for 20 years, was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Panama. A zoning and land-use attorney, Ambassador Ferro has been active in numerous professional and charitable organizations. He was appointed to the board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in 1994 and is a member of the board of directors of Union Planters Bank of Florida. He is a former director of the United Family and Children's Services of Dade County, a former trustee of the City of Miami General Employees and Sanitation Employees Pension Fund, and former director of the Latin Builders Association. Ambassador Ferro earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Miami and his law degree from the University of Florida.
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George M. Staples
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RWANDA: George M. Staples was confirmed by the Senate as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda. He joined the Foreign Service in 1961, after serving as an Air Force officer and manager in private industry. His Foreign Service assignments include tours in El Salvador, Uruguay, Equatorial Guinea, the Bahamas and Zimbabwe. From 1995 to 1996, Ambassador Staples was assigned as a National Security Affairs Fellow to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He most recently served as deputy chief of mission in Bahrain. In Washington, Ambassador Staples has served as a senior watch officer in State's Operations Center and as the senior Turkey desk officer in the Bureau of European Affairs during the Gulf War. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California and a master's degree from Central Michigan University. He speaks French, Spanish and Turkish.
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Joseph H. Melrose Jr.
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SIERRA LEONE: Joseph H. Melrose Jr. was recently confirmed as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Melrose helped establish the Multinational Force and Observers in the Sinai Peninsula and served as executive secretary of the U.S. delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Europe. He was appointed executive director of the Bureau of Near East and South Asian Affairs in 1986, worked for several years in the Office of the Undersecretary for Management and became deputy chief of mission in Nigeria in 1995. Ambassador Melrose received his bachelor's degree from Ursinus College and his master's degree in journalism from Temple University. He speaks Vietnamese and is a past vice president of the American Foreign Service Association.
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Robert Patrick John Finn
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TAJIKISTAN: Robert Patrick John Finn, deputy chief of mission in Zagreb since July 1995, was confirmed by the Senate as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Tajikistan. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, he opened the U.S. Embassy in Baku in 1992, serving as chargé d'affaires and deputy chief of mission. He directed the embassy office in Diyarbakir during the initial months of Operation Provide Comfort and was a deputy coordinator of the Kuwait Task Force during the Gulf War. Ambassador Finn also served as deputy principal officer in Lahore and has had several tours in Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir. He has worked in the Bureaus of African Affairs and Intelligence and Research. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey from 1967 to 1969 and a Fulbright scholar at Istanbul University from 1976 to 1977. He received the 1994 Baker-Wilkins Award for outstanding deputy chief of mission and a 1988 State award for heroism. Ambassador Finn has a bachelor's degree from St. John's University, a master's degree from New York University and master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University.
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Bert T. Edwards
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CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER: Bert T. Edwardswas recently confirmed by the Senateas State's chief financial officer. Ambassador Edwards spent 34 years with the Washington, D.C., office of Arthur Andersen, retiring as a partner in 1994. A certified public accountant, he specialized in audits and consulting for governments, nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions. Ambassador Edwards is a member of the Resource Council of the Greater Washington Boys and Girls Clubs and held several offices with the Barker Foundation, an adoption agency, and Junior Achievement of Metropolitan Washington. He is treasurer of the National Committee on Public Employee Pension Systems and the Population Reference Bureau and is director and treasurer of the D.C. Appleseed Center. Ambassador Edwards received a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and a master's of business administration degree from Stanford University.
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Harold Koh
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DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR: Harold Koh was confirmed by the Senate as assistant secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Before his confirmation, he was the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law and director of the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School. He previously clerked for Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court and worked as an attorney at the Department of Justice. Ambassador Koh has written more than 70 articles on international law, international business transactions, human rights and constitutional law, and is the author of several books on international relations, law and human rights. He has received the Asian American Bar Association of New York's 1997 Outstanding Lawyer of the Year Award and was recognized by American Lawyer magazine as one of America's 45 leading public sector lawyers under the age of 45. He received bachelor's degrees from Harvard University and Oxford University and a law degree from Harvard Law School.
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Frank E. Loy
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GLOBAL AFFAIRS: Frank E. Loy, former deputy assistant secretary for Economics and Business and director of Refugee Programs in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, was recently confirmed as undersecretary for Global Affairs. He was a senior vice president for Pan American Airways and president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and has been active in several environmental organizations. He chaired the Foundation for a Civil Society, which fosters democratic institutions in Eastern Europe. Ambassador Loy is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and Harvard Law School. He speaks German and Italian.
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Rand Beers
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INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AFFAIRS: Rand Beers was confirmed as assistant secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. A member of the Senior Executive Service, he has served as principal deputy assistant for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs since January 1998. He also served on the National Security Council staff for the past 10 years. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a Foreign Service officer and Civil Service employee in the Bureau of Political and Military Affairs. Ambassador Beers received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and a master's degree from the University of Michigan.
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David Welch
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INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS: C. David Welch, principal deputy assistant secretary for Near Eastern Affairs, was confirmed as assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs. Ambassador Welch has had several assignments in the Middle East and South Asia, including Jordan, Syria and Pakistan. He was deputy chief of mission in Saudi Arabia from l992 to 1995, serving two of those years as chargé d'affaires. He was a member of the National Security Council staff from 1989 to 199l. Ambassador Welch is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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