Trump nominates Natalie Baker as US ambassador to Pakistan
“US President Donald Trump has nominated Natalie Baker, currently serving as the charge d’affaires at the US Embassy in Islamabad, for appointment as the next US ambassador to Pakistan,. Baker’s nominat…”
Baker’s nomination has been forwarded to the US Senate for consideration. It will first be reviewed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and, if cleared, will be placed before the full Senate for confirmation. She will formally assume the position of US ambassador to Pakistan after securing Senate approval.
Baker took over as charge d’affaires at the US Embassy in Islamabad in January 2025, following the departure of former ambassador Donald Armin Blome. She had arrived in Pakistan in August 2024 to serve as the embassy’s deputy chief of mission.
Before her posting in Islamabad, Baker served as deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in Doha from August 2021 to July 2024.
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Her diplomatic career also includes assignments as deputy chief of mission and charge d’affaires at the US Mission to Libya, deputy director of the Iran Regional Presence Office at the US Consulate in Dubai, and economic counsellor at the US Embassy in Kuwait.
She also served as director of the Office of North African Affairs at the US State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs. Baker has served as political and economic counsellor in Libya from 2009 to 2011, during the normalisation of bilateral relations following a nearly three-decade suspension.
She remained in the country until the Libyan Revolution forced the US Embassy to evacuate in February 2011.
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