On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced Louisiana native, Nicole D. Theriot, to become Ambassador to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.
Theriot presently serves as the principal officer in Karachi, Pakistan.
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 for the president’s National Security Council.
She also has been the senior adviser to the deputy assistant secretary of state for overseas citizens services in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, and she has held posts in Kabul, Afghanistan; Casablanca, Morocco; Frankfurt, Germany; Islamabad, Pakistan; Barbados; Baghdad, Iraq; Montreal, Canada; Paris, France; and Lagos, Nigeria.
Theriot is the recipient of numerous State Department performance awards, including a Senior Foreign Service Performance award.
Theriot graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1993 from Louisiana States University (LSU) and in 1998 with a master’s in International Relations from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She speaks English,French and Urdu.
