Teplitz confirmed as US Ambassador to SL

US Senate has confirmed the nomination of Alaina B. Teplitz as the next US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Ms. Teplitz, who is from Colorado, served as the Ambassador to Nepal prior to her new appointment.

Alaina B. Teplitz

Teplitz joined the U.S. Foreign Service in 1991. Her initial assignments included ones at the State Department’s Bureau of Administration, as well as international ones in Australia, Albania, and Mongolia. She was a Programme Analyst at the Center for Administrative Innovation from 2001-02, and from 2002-04 she was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh She was nominated by President Obama on March 26, 2015 and was confirmed by the Senate on August 5, 2015. Teplitz was nominated by President Trump to be the next United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives on May 24, 2018.

US President Donald Trump nominated Ms. Teplitz, a career member of the senior foreign service with the rank of Minister-counselor, as the new US Ambassador to Sri Lanka.

She will serve as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the US to Sri Lanka and to serve concurrently as Ambassador to Maldives as well.

Ms. Teplitz will replace former US Ambassador in Sri Lanka, Atul Keshap.

US President Donald Trump nominated Ms. Teplitz, a career member of the senior foreign service with the rank of Minister-counselor, as the new US Ambassador to Sri Lanka