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. In the absence of an ambassador, the Deputy Permanent Representative assumes the role of interim Permanent Representative and heads USOECD as Chargé d'Affaires. The current ambassador is Sean Patrick Maloney.
The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:
Image | Ambassador | Time served | Classification | OECD Secretary-General | U.S. President | |
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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 | Philip H. Trezise | 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 | William C. Turner | 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 | Abraham Katz | 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, 2007 | 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[1] – January 20, 2017 | Political appointee | |||
18 | Jack Markell | February 11, 2022 – August 21, 2023 | Political appointee | Mathias Cormann | Joe Biden | |
19 | Sean Patrick Maloney | April 2, 2024 – present | Political appointee |
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