On April 22, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Geoffrey Pyatt as Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources. On April 25, 2022, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee received the nomination.
Geoffrey R. Pyatt, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, currently serves as U.S. Ambassador to Greece, held a position since 2016. Before that, Pyatt was U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, and he was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. Previously, Geoffrey Pyatt served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission to the International Atomic Energy Agency and International Organizations in Vienna, Austria. He also served at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, as Deputy Chief of Mission and political counselor. Pyatt served as Economic Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Hong Kong and as Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Lahore, Pakistan. Since joining the Foreign Service in 1989, Pyatt has also served as Director for Latin America at the National Security Council, as Special Assistant in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of State, in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, and at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India and U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Pyatt receives numerous performance awards, including a Presidential Distinguished Honor Award. He earned a B.A. from the University of California at Irvine and an M.A. from Yale University. A native of California, he speaks Spanish.
