2021 - Principals and Chiefs Chronological
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Principal Officers and Chiefs of Mission, by Year: 2021
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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.
Note: Career Foreign Service appointees are asterisked.
- Antony Blinken (1962–)
- Deputy Secretary of State (2015–2017)
- Secretary of State (2021)
- Callista L. Gingrich (1966–)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Holy See (2017–2021)
- Michael R. Pompeo (1963–)
- Secretary of State (2018–2021)
- *Daniel Bennett Smith (1956–)
- Executive Secretary (2007–2009)
- Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Greece (2010–2013)
- Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research (2014–2018)
- Director of the Foreign Service Institute (2018)
- Career Ambassador (2018)
- Secretary of State ad interim (2021)