President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Randy W. Berry as Ambassador to the Republic of Namibia. On June 22, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Randy Berry is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Career Minister. He currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to Nepal. Prior to that, Berry was Deputy Assistant Secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor and, before that, the State Department’s first Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons.
Berry served as Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy, Kathmandu, and was twice a Principal Officer and Consul General — first at the U.S. Consulate General in Auckland, New Zealand, and then at the U.S. Consulate General in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His other assignments include service as Deputy Principal Officer, U.S. Consulate General, Cape Town, South Africa; Senior Desk Officer for South Africa, Bureau of African Affairs, Department of State; and as Political Section Chief, and then Regional Refugee Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Kampala, Uganda.
Early in his career Berry was Vice Consul at the U.S. Embassy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and then at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. Berry earned his B.A. from Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas.
