Rizwan Saeed Sheikh, Pakistan's new ambassador in Washington, was the focus of our first Ambassador Insider Series of 2025.

Foreign embassies welcomed the Trump administration into office with a series of events leading up to the inauguration.

D.C. has a wide collection of private organizations catering to the city’s elite, and several court members of Washington’s diplomatic corps.

In the October 2018 Issue Putting D.C. on the Map The Meridian Is the Invisible Line That Runs Through Washington ...

Angelique Gingras is an associate editor at The Washington Diplomat. She is currently based in London where she is a postgraduate student in international journalism at City St. George's, University ...

Mpho Mophuting, Botswana's ambassador to the United States, is actively promoting manufacturing, tourism and financial services in an effort to diversify his country's economy away from diamond mining ...

Mpho Churchill Mophuting, Botswana’s new ambassador in Washington, says his country must end its near-total economic dependence on diamond exports. Tunisia’s Tajouri Bessassi makes history as 2024 ...

A few ambassadors offered their thoughts on collaborative investment for growth at the Meridian International Center’s Shaping Geopolitical Futures Summit on the morning of Oct. 18. Later that evening ...

Esther Coopersmith is a woman known as Washington’s most famous hostess. At 92, she’s not nearly as energetic as she was just a few years ago. These days, she gets around with a wheelchair and the ...

From selling cognac to shaping a continent, Jean Monnet, known as one of the founding fathers of the European Union, spent a lifetime laying the groundwork for the post-World War II transatlantic ...

He meets with US officials in coffee houses or at his office – not embassy – just outside Washington, D.C., but since Bashir Goth has been in the United States as the diplomatic representative for ...

Choral Arts' 44th annual holiday concert and gala was held on Dec. 16 at the Kennedy Center. Estonian Ambassador Kristjan Prikk and his wife Liis were honorary patrons at Choral Arts Society of ...