Papua New Guinea - Chiefs of Mission - People - Department
History
Chiefs of Mission for Papua New Guinea
NOTE TO READERS
Updates to the Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission database are currently suspended. For information about the Department’s current and recent leadership, we recommend visiting the Department of State homepage’s Biographies of Senior Officials and List of U.S. Ambassadors.
Notice posted on January 12, 2024.
Last
updated March 14, 2024.
Chiefs of Mission
- Mary Seymour Olmsted (1919–2018)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, January 5, 1976–July 28, 1979
- Harvey J. Feldman (1931–2009)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 26, 1979–May 25, 1981
- M. Virginia Schafer (1931–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 3, 1981–May 20, 1984
- Paul Fisher Gardner (1930–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 7, 1984–October 1, 1986
- Everett E. Bierman (1924–2017)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 11, 1986–October 30, 1989
- Robert William Farrand (1934–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, May 1, 1990–September 13, 1993
- Richard W. Teare (1937–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 23, 1993–July 14, 1996
- Arma Jane Karaer (1941–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, April 15, 1997–May 28, 2000
- Susan Jacobs (1945–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 7, 2000–August 1, 2003
- Robert W. Fitts (1948–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, September 11, 2003–October 2, 2006
- Leslie Ventura Rowe (1947–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 15, 2006–July 11, 2009
- Teddy Bernard Taylor (1953–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, October 26, 2009–October 6, 2012
- Walter E. North (1950–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, December 4, 2012–January 22, 2016
- Catherine Ebert-Gray (1955–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, February 23, 2016–November 17, 2019
- Erin E. McKee (?–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, November 27, 2019–
Other Nominees
None