NEW AMBASSADORS 2025-2026
Based on the diplomatic information available as of October 14, 2025, here are some of the new foreign ambassadors who have recently presented their credentials in Washington D.C., or whose appointments were recently noted in official listings:
Appointments in 2025 and late 2024 include:
- Andorra: Joan Rovira FORNER (Credentials presented in January 2025)
- Argentina: Alejandro Carlos Francisco OXENFORD (Credentials presented in June 2025)
- Belgium: Frédéric BERNARD (Credentials presented in February 2025)
- Burkina Faso: Kassoum COULIBALY (Credentials presented in July 2025)
- Cambodia: Koy KUONG (Credentials presented in June 2025
- Colombia: Daniel GARCÍA-PEÑA JARAMILLO (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Dominican Republic: María Isabel CASTILLO BÁEZ (Credentials presented in June 2025)
- Ecuador: Pablo Agustín ZAMBRANO Albuja (Credentials presented in July 2025)
- Ethiopia: BINALF Andualem Ashenef (Credentials presented in February 2025)
- Finland: Leena-Kaisa MIKKOLA (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Greece: Antonis Alexandridis (Credentials presented in January 2026)
- Iceland: Svanhildur Hólm VALSDÓTTIR (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- India: Vinay Mohan KWATRA (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Indonesia: Dwisuryo Indroyono Soesilo (Reported appointment in August 2025)
- Israel: Yechiel LEITER (Credentials presented in February 2025)
- Kenya: David KERICH (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Kyrgyzstan: Aibek MOLDOGAZIEV (Credentials presented in February 2025)
- Latvia: Elita KUZMA (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Lebanon: Nada Hamadeh Moawad (Credentials presented in September 2025)
- Liberia: Al-Hassan CONTEH (Credentials presented in July 2025)
- Madagascar: Lantosoa RAKOTOMALALA (Credentials presented in January 2025)
- Malaysia: Muhammad Shahrul Ikram bin Yaakob (Reported to have recently joined the scene as of August 2025)
- Nauru: Lara Erab DANIEL (Credentials presented in January 2025)
- Nepal: Lok Darshan REGMI (Credentials presented in June 2025)
- New Zealand: Rosemary BANKS (Credentials presented in June 2024)
- Norway: Anniken Scharning HUITFELDT (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Oman: Talal Sulaiman AL-RAHBI (Credentials presented in July 2025)
- Pakistan: Rizwan Saeed SHEIKH (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Panama: José Miguel ALEMÁN HEALY (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Russia: Alexander Nikitich DARCHIEV (Credentials presented in June 2025)
- Serbia: Dragan ŠUTANOVAC (Credentials presented in July 2025)
- Sierra Leone: Amara Sheikh Mohammed SOWA (Credentials presented in July 2025)
- Somalia: DAHIR Hassan Abdi (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- South Sudan: Santino Fardol Watoo DICKEN (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Switzerland: Ralph HECKNER (Credentials presented in September 2024)
- Thailand: Suriya CHINDAWONGSE (Credentials presented in June 2024)
- Türkiye: Sedat ÖNAL (Credentials presented in June 2024)
- Yemen: Abdulwahab Abdulla ALHAJJRI (Credentials presented in July 2025)
The official date listed is the Date of Presentation of Credentials, which marks the formal start of their role as Ambassador.