List of ambassadors of the United States to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

The following is a list of United States Ambassadors to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, France. The official title for the position is the Representative of the U.S.A to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, with the rank of Ambassador.^{[citation needed]} In the absence of an Ambassador, the Deputy Permanent Representative assumes the role of interim Permanent Representative and heads USOECD as Chargé d'Affaires. Since neither of President Donald Trump's two nominees for this position, Pamela Bates^[1][2] and Manisha Singh,^[3] were confirmed by the U.S. Senate, the current Chargé d'Affaires is Whitney Young Baird.^[4][5]

Office holders[]

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:

No.	Image	Ambassador	Time served	Classification	OECD Secretary-General	U.S. President
1		John W. Tuthill	October 4, 1961 – October 22, 1962	Career FSO	Thorkil Kristensen	John F. Kennedy
2		John M. Leddy	October 3, 1962 – June 15, 1965	Political appointee
						Lyndon B. Johnson
3			October 26, 1965 – July 7, 1969	Career FSO
						Richard Nixon
4		Joseph A. Greenwald	July 22, 1969 – October 12, 1972	Career FSO
					Emiel van Lennep
5			May 23, 1974 – May 1, 1977	Political appointee
						Gerald Ford
						Jimmy Carter
6		Herbert Salzman	June 8, 1977 – March 30, 1981	Political appointee
						Ronald Reagan
7			July 30, 1981 – May 24, 1984	Career FSO
8		Edward Streator	August 13, 1984 – June 15, 1987	Career FSO
					Jean-Claude Paye
9		Denis Lamb	June 15, 1987 – June 28, 1990	Career FSO
						George H.W. Bush
10		Alan Philip Larson	June 28, 1990 – June 23, 1993	Career FSO
						Bill Clinton
11		David Laurence Aaron	August 2, 1993 – November 26, 1997	Political appointee
12		Amy L. Bondurant	November 28, 1997 – July 31, 2001	Political appointee	Donald Johnston
13		Jeanne L. Phillips	August 7, 2001 – June 2, 2003	Political appointee		George W. Bush
14		Connie Morella	August 1, 2003 – August 6, 2005	Political appointee
15		Christopher F. Egan	October 29, 2007 – January 20, 2009	Political appointee	José Ángel Gurría
						Barack Obama
16		Karen Kornbluh	August 12, 2009 – June 23, 2012	Political appointee
17		Daniel Yohannes	May 2, 2014[6] – January 20, 2017	Political appointee

Notes[]

References[]

• "Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Paris)". U.S. Department of State: Office of the Historian. Retrieved 2009-01-29.

External links[]

• United States Mission to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
• United States Mission listing of U.S. ambassadors to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

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