List of ambassadors of the United States to Vietnam

The United States Ambassador to Vietnam (Vietnamese: Đại sứ Hoa Kỳ tại Việt Nam) is the chief American diplomat to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. After the First Indochina War and the defeat of the French domination over Vietnam, the country was split into North and South Vietnam at the Geneva Conference of 1954. The United States did not recognize North Vietnam and thus had no diplomatic relations with the country. After the reunification of Vietnam in 1976, there followed a period of 20 years in which the United States had no diplomatic relations with Vietnam.

Ambassador of the United States to Vietnam
Đại sứ Hoa Kỳ tại Việt Nam
Seal of the United States Department of State
Incumbent
Daniel Kritenbrink
since November 6, 2017[1]
NominatorThe President of the United States
Inaugural holderPete Peterson
as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
FormationApril 11, 1997
WebsiteU.S. Embassy - Hanoi

The U.S. opened a Liaison Office in Hanoi on January 28, 1995. Diplomatic relations were established July 11, 1995, and the embassy in Hanoi was established with L. Desaix Anderson as chargé d’affaires ad interim.

Ambassadors
  • Pete Peterson – Political appointee[2]
    • Appointed: April 11, 1997
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: May 14, 1997
    • Terminated mission: Left post July 15, 2001
  • Raymond Burghardt – Career FSO
    • Appointed: November 28, 2001
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Presented credentials: February 5, 2002
    • Terminated mission: 2004
  • Michael W. Marine – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: May 6, 2004
    • Presented credentials: September 10, 2004
    • Terminated mission: – August 10, 2007
  • Michael W. Michalak – Career FSO[3]
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: May 24, 2007
    • Presented credentials: August 10, 2007
    • Terminated mission: Left post February 14, 2011
  • Virginia E. Palmer – Career FSO[4]
    • Title: Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
    • Appointed: February 14, 2011
    • Presented credentials: February 14, 2011
    • Terminated mission: July 2011
  • David B. Shear – Career FSO[5]
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: August 2011
    • Presented credentials: August 29, 2011
    • Terminated mission: December 2014
  • Ted Osius – Career FSO[6]
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: December 10, 2014[7]
    • Presented credentials: December 16, 2014[8]
    • Terminated mission: November 4, 2017
  • Daniel Kritenbrink – Career FSO
    • Title: Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
    • Appointed: October 27, 2017
    • Presented credentials: November 6, 2017

Residence
Ambassador's Residence

The house used by the U.S. ambassador was designed by M. LaCollogne, Principal Architect and Chief of Civil Construction Service in Tonkin and built in 1921 by Indochina Public Property, part of the French colonial government, for Indochina Financial Governors who lived here until 1948. The house was then assigned, until 1954, to the highest-ranking Indochina Tariff Officer. When the French left South East Asia in 1954, Vietnamese government officials moved in. Vice Minister Phan Kế Toại was the last occupant; at his death, the house became the headquarters for the Committee for Foreign Culture Exchange. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ press office was located in the building until 1994. The residence was included in an exchange of property between the United States of America and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1995.[9]

Notes
  1. "Ambassador Dan Kritenbrink". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
  2. An earlier nomination of May 23, 1996, was not acted upon by the Senate.
  3. "Biography of Ambassador Michalak - U.S. Embassy Hanoi". Archived from the original on 2011-05-01. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  4. "Former Chargé d'Affaires". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Hanoi. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  5. "Ambassador". United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy Hanoi. Archived from the original on 2012-09-09. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  6. Itkowitz, Colby (November 17, 2014). "Senate clears four ambassador nominees". Washington Post. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  7. Lavers, Michael K. (December 10, 2014). "Gay man sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam". Washington Blade. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  8. "New US Ambassador Arrives in Vietnam, Meets President". Thanh Nien News. December 17, 2014. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  9. U.S. Department of State, The Secretary of State's Register of Culturally Significant Property, 2007.

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