The newly-assigned United States Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot was accredited on Monday after she presented her Letters of Credence to President Dr. Irfaan Ali his Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Georgetown, office.
Ambassador Theriot replaces Sarah- Ann Lynch who served as the US Ambassador to Guyana since 2019.
The career diplomat was nominated by US President Joseph Biden. She was confirmed as the next US Ambassador to Guyana in July. Before this assignment, she served as the Principal Officer in Karachi, Pakistan.
A White House release issued last year stated that Theriot previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Prior to that, she was Director for Immigration and Visa Security at the National Security Council in the Executive Office of the President.
Before that, she was Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Overseas Citizens Services in the Bureau of Consular Affairs.
Theriot also held the positions of Political Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan; Principal Officer in Casablanca, Morocco; and Bureau of Consular Affairs’ Supervisory Regional Consular Officer in Frankfurt, Germany.
Her other overseas assignments include Internal Politics Chief in Islamabad, Pakistan; Consul General in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean; Deputy Consular Chief in Baghdad, Iraq; Non-immigrant Visa Chief in Montreal, Canada; Consular Officer in Paris, France; and Information Officer in Lagos, Nigeria.
Theriot is the recipient of numerous State Department performance awards, including a Senior Foreign Service Performance award.
