{"id":758658,"date":"2022-01-20T11:26:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/biden-announces-nominees-for-ambassadors-to-brazil-u-k-denmark-chad\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T11:26:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T11:26:24","slug":"biden-announces-nominees-for-ambassadors-to-brazil-u-k-denmark-chad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/biden-announces-nominees-for-ambassadors-to-brazil-u-k-denmark-chad\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden announces nominees for ambassadors to Brazil, U.K., Denmark, Chad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Biden-announces-nominees-for-ambassadors-to-Brazil-UK.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 19 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> President Joe Biden announced four new nominees for ambassador Wednesday to fill vacancies in Brazil, the UK, Denmark and Chad.<\/p>\n<p>The list includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elizabeth Bagley, nominee for ambassador to Brazil<\/li>\n<li> Jane Hartley, nominee for ambassador to the United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li> Alexander Laskaris, nominee for ambassador to Chad<\/li>\n<li> Alan Leventhal, nominee for ambassador to Denmark<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hartley will be the first female ambassador to serve in the United Kingdom in over 40 years. Prior to her nomination, she served as an ambassador in France and Monaco.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Bagley served as ambassador to Portugal during the Clinton administration. She was awarded the Grand Cross of Prince Henry the Navigator, Portugal&#8217;s highest civilian honor.<\/p>\n<p>Laskaris served as ambassador to Guinea during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>Leventhal was chosen from the private sector and is founder, chair and CEO of Beacon Capital Partners.<\/p>\n<p>Other key roles the White House announced Wednesday include Kathryn Huff, nominee for assistant secretary for nuclear energy at the Department of Energy; Deborah Coen, nominee to the National Council on the Humanities; and William Brodsky, nominee to the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 19 (UPI) &#8212; President Joe Biden announced four new nominees for ambassador Wednesday to fill vacancies in Brazil, the UK, Denmark and Chad. The list includes: Elizabeth Bagley, nominee for ambassador to Brazil Jane Hartley, nominee for ambassador to the United Kingdom Alexander Laskaris, nominee for ambassador to Chad Alan Leventhal, nominee for ambassador [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}