Nicole Theriot nominated as new US Ambassador to Guyana

The White House has announced that Nicole Theriot, who is currently serving as the principal officer in Karachi, Pakistan will be the new ambassador to Guyana when the current ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch term comes to an end.

Theriot graduated in 1983 from Louisiana State Uiversity with a Bachelor’s degree and in 1998 with a masters in international relations from Vanderbilt university in Nashville, Tennessee.
She is a career member of the senior foreign service and previously served as deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Port-au-Prince Haiti, she served as director for immigration and visa security council in the executive office of the president. She was also senior advisor to the deputy assistant secretary of state for overseas citizens service in the Bureau of consular affairs. Theriot was also a political counselor at the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, principal officer in Casablanca Morocco, and Bureau of consular Affairs supervisory Regional consular officer in Frankfurt, Germany, and many other overseas assignments. She is also the recipient of numerous state awards including a senior foreign service performance award.
The current US Ambassador to Guyana Sarah Ann Lynch was confirmed by the US senate on January 2, 2019 and sworn in as Ambassador to Guyana on January 7, 2019.
Lynch previously served as senior deputy assistant administrator and acting assistant administrator in USAID’s Latin America and Caribbean Bureau. She is a career member of the senior foreign service, a graduate from Mount Holyoke College and holds master’s degrees from the Fletcher school of Law and Diplomacy at tufts University and the national war college. She also served with USAID from 1993 to 2018 and was posted overseas in Bangladesh, Peru, Afghanistan and Iraq where she was the USAID mission director in Baghdad. In Washington she served in the regional Bureaus of Democracy, conflict and Humanitarian Assistance.
The current United states Ambassador Sarah Ann Lynch played a critical role in the development of Guyana since she took office and continues to build and strengthen bilateral relations between Guyana and the United States of America.
During the covid out break the US had donated 146,250 Pfizer vaccines to Guyana back in 2021, and major investments in the security of Guyana by renovating the Guyana defense force coast guard training center in Kingston.
The US Ambassador also played a keen role in securing Guyana’s democracy in the March 2020 General and Regional Elections by placing pressure on the previous administration to allow the smooth transition of the current elected administration.