After more than two years without a US Ambassador to Guyana, President Barack Obama on Monday nominated US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires in Barbados, D. Brent Hardt to be the new top envoy here.
According to a White House release Hardt is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy to Barbados.
Hardt previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, Bahamas and at the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See. Prior to that, he served as Team Leader for NATO Policy in the Office of European Political and Security Affairs in the Department of State and as Political-Economic Section Chief at the U.S. Embassy to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. Hardt joined the United States Foreign Service in 1988, and served as a Consular Officer in Barbados, Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany during German unification, and Political-Military Officer at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague, where he also served as an exchange diplomat in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He earned a B.A. in History from Yale University, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
The nomination now goes through a confirmation process.
