I began my term as ambassador on Monday – taking over from former ambassador Penny Williams – when the foreign minister Julie Bishop announced my appointment in Sydney.
Mr. Ricciardone has also had a long State Department career, including a term as ambassador to Egypt.
After years in charge of Panama's intelligence service, he ascended to power during my term as ambassador to Panama.
He campaigned for Eisenhower in the 1952 Presidential election, but his sole reward was a one-year term as Ambassador to Thailand.
The term "brand ambassador" goes back almost two decades; liquor companies have long used charming, knowledgeable bartenders with that title to schmooze at clubs.
During Mr. Galbraith's term as Ambassador there, the snake charmer was not an Embassy employee, but was paid on a fee basis at so much a snake.
He has already served one term as ambassador to Austria, in 2001, following claims that he was preparing to instigate a coup against Mr Nazarbayev.
During Mr. Negroponte's term as ambassador, Congress passed the Boland amendments, restricting direct and indirect United States support for the contras.
But Philip Lader, who just completed a three-and-a-half-year term as ambassador to Britain, is making adjustments of his own.
In various publications, and in his reminiscences on his term as ambassador in Washington, he endeavoured to prove that Germany, if it had followed the proper policy, could have avoided war with America.
