U.S. President Joe Biden on June 22 announced a number of key nominees.
Among them is Mr. Manuel P. Micaller, Jr., who is nominated as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Tajikistan.
Mr. Micaller is a career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, rank of Minister- Counselor. He is currently serving as Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy Kathmandu, Nepal.
He was the Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from 2016 to 2019. Previously, he was Deputy Director of the Office of India Affairs in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (SCA); Political-Economic Section Chief, then Acting Deputy Chief of Mission in Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Senior Economic Officer in the SCA Office of Regional Affairs, and Deputy Chief of the Economic Section in Rabat, Morocco. He has served in the Department of State’s Operations Center and Executive Secretariat Staff; Moscow, Russia; and Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. He also worked for Tyco International as an Executive Council on Diplomacy Lawrence S. Eagleburger Fellow.
Mr. Micaller has a B.A. from the Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from George Washington University, and is a Distinguished Graduate of the National War College, with an MS in National Security Strategy. He speaks Russian and Tajik Farsi.
